Chapter 20

Katherine, a frightening and mythic figure. One whose temperamental moods he was still learning to navigate. There may have been scant doubt she was his mother, but there was no warmth, no comfort in that knowledge, only forced interest and concern on each of their parts. For Adam, she, like the rest of them, left him tense and on edge.

The group themselves came and went at random intervals. They often disappeared for days at a time, resurfacing to regal Adam with tales of their exploits. Ian, too, took off on one secret assignment after another. Unlike the others, he said little of where he’d been upon returning.