“Wait, just like that, you’re leaving?” Jim questioned.
Gwen, looking a bit better from a moment’s rest, and flush in the cheeks from downing Nathan’s wine, smiled serenely down at Jim. She held Wally in her arms. “I have complete faith in you all to hold firm until I return with the others. You just take care of each other. She’s lovely, by the way,” Gwen winked in regards to Alex, who looked startled to suddenly be referenced. Gwen shifted Wally in her arms then and held her up under the shoulders. “As for you, don’t you think it’s about time you lent alargerhand?”
She placed Wally back in Nathan’s lap without elaboration, which left Nathan blinking dumbly.
“And Sasha, love, so glad you’re back to yourself. What eye I could keep on you missed that recessive gene we share.” Gwen reached down, cupping his face for just a moment, fingers teasing the strands ofred, so like hers, and then she was gone.