Prim was grateful for Grandma Alexakis, grateful that the old lady had judged the situation quickly and sent her siblings upstairs before the Miguel incident. She stumbled into the restroom. Was it just good judgment or did the old lady know the violent nature of her grandsons? She did not like this, this suspicion her mind was forming from all that had been happening since her wedding. The ice god had not reported the death of Renzo’s father to the police. Now this. And Renzo, that was what his father had called him that day if she remembered correctly, was out there now at Mamita’s wake like they were all members of one large happy family. “I like your in-laws.” She heard Aurora’s voice, and the door shut close behind her. Prim groaned, closing her eyes. She did not need this no

