Daniel and Don were both quiet. They drank their coffee, glancing at me from time to time, as though I was a bomb with an invisible timer. It would have been wonderfully empowering had I not already seen a man die that morning, broken up with my boyfriend the night before, and learned he was a secret government agent. I didn't want to be empowered just then. I wanted to be somewhere else.
I had no idea what I was going to say to either of them at first. So, I sat at the breakfast table staring at a plate filled with food I was too sick to eat. I thought about what Exit70Go10 had said about Daniel and what Austin had added to my wealth of information about him.
After playing with the bagel for a few minutes, I fed bites of it to Emmett, Teva, and Zip.
As I dropped pieces of the bagel int
