23. One Big Family
Ben
It was good to see everyone again, but it should have been better.
There should have been more of us here.
And fewer.
The Council members soured the tone of every room in the bunker, like three drunk, unwelcome relatives at a Christmas party. Whenever anyone’s politeness toward them slipped, they’d find some way to drop into the conversation how they’d just helped save Mina’s and my lives, like they had no motives of their own for keeping us out of the Slivers’ hands.
Dealing with them might at least have served as a distraction from all the missing faces, if Alexei would just stop offering his grating ideas of sage advice.
“…And after she moved to Paraguay, it was much harder for both of us, with her work and all her changing phone numbers, but do you know wh
