And, speak of the devil, a throat cleared itself high over Kim’s left shoulder, and she paused in her cleaning to look up at Daniel.
He had been about to say something, probably that she was doing it all wrong and that he would take over custodial duties before she damaged something permanently, but he stopped and reconsidered as he noticed her expression. His eyebrows lowered.
“Something’s gone wrong,” he said.
She snorted and stood up. “Fight broke out,” she said, even though he had not actually asked. “Vasquez called Galbraith a Castro waiting to happen. Gloria socked him in the nose, so he hit her with this snotball spell that made her break out in zits, and then she made his tongue swell up so big it dislocated his jaw…”
“That’s more than large enough to suffocate him. Is he all r
