Around us stood Dr.

Cabot and the specialists, and behind them a hundred people who had come to celebrate a family returning to its purpose.

Cassian saw the cameras, and a man like Cassian cannot see cameras without performing for them.

“So this was the plan?” he shouted, loud enough to turn heads.

“Move in with a rich old man, get pregnant, and pretend you won?”

The terrace went quiet in the way a room goes quiet when everyone realizes at once that they are about to watch someone destroy himself in public.