Chapter 71
- Oh great! Now he was playing the clueless little man. I didn't have time for this. I hadn't slept in a long while and I would love to cradle my head on a pillow right at that moment. What I did not need was a pretence.
- "Xavier, we don't have time for this. Are you better? So can we go home?"
- "Wait a sec," he interrupted, sitting up straighter on his butt. "You thought... That was an act?"