Chapter 196
Chapter 196
FAKE BIANCA
The reading had been a good de
had settled on it as a strat with Louis on the living
someone and was w
what he needed to
I had picked
read before
couch an
Lov
when I had noticed Rivera watching me from the kitchen doorway while I sat icion it wasn’t that kind of watching. It was the watching of a man who loved as looking for signs that things were improving. I had understood immediately him.
y on the side table – one of hers, a novel with a broken spine that indicated it had been fort reading rather than new reading – and I had moved slightly closer to Louis on the
extra beat. The frown. Then he had looked back at his dinosaurs.
ped watching quite so carefully. He tic language of someone who was
oss the room, the way his shoulders came down
d brought me a cup without being asked, which ng it through action rather than words.
eant less attention on me. Less
ltiple components, and I
tely, each one progress
Louis.
d was going in
isting mag
partic
more room to work.
lel the way I always ran complex operations – each thread them allowed to interfere with the others.
rink, at the dosage Voss had confirmed was appropriate for his expected responses – increased tiredness, slightly slower reserves were being quietly reduced. He had not said anything about s to the drink or he had connected it and decided not to raise it.
doing some kind of regular healing work with him
I had gathered this from
era’s mentions of it in casual conversation. Something she did each evening. A esidual curse damage manageable.
at I was tired and wanted to sleep early, and he had not pushed it, and Louis had not
s, from my operational perspective, useful
it meant the compound’s effects were
‘t being regularly strengthened, which meant the sensitization process was progressing
onsciously. It had presented itself as an optional fact, the way operational facts did when you
rational facts and co
igent
edirect
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without appearing to redirect.
Rivera had included me in the house worked now simply assumed coffee, present b peripherally
I had list
Roy
re
naturally, without discussion, which told me this was how the real woman’s presence in gs, integrated into the operational circle in a way that had developed over time and was y on the second afternoon while Klaus and Elijah were there, with my book and my vay someone sat in a room where their partner was working – comfortable, occupied,
from the correct conclusion.
e right moment, when the conversation ha secondary location, and I had asked a qu
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