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"Where's your new girlfriend?" Aiden asked as he and Will lingered by the drinks table at the Knight and Day Grand Opening the next day.
Suzanne had planned the party and had done a magnificent job. Bunting hung from every corner of the hangar, which was filled with banquet tables and chatting guests. A big cake in the shape of a knight chess piece took up an entire table. Balloons shaped like airplanes floated above the real planes, which sparkled outside in the thin October sunshine.
Aiden looked good, his hair in a spiky bedhead cut. He wore cargo shorts and a t-shirt with dancing tacos on it—an item he hadn't owned when he'd left Jupiter Point. Aiden had always been a sweet-natured kid. After the trauma of the murder, he'd gotten quieter for a time, less bubbly, but he still had
