Chapter 702

• Adelie and I sat in the dining room having breakfast together for the first time in a week. Ten Zetas lined the walls, and Duncan sat at my right side, as he went through the day’s meetings with me. Carter stood at the other end of the dining table surveying the room.
• He was taking his Zeta duties more seriously ever since that fall, even though I’d told him a hundred times that he couldn’t have prevented it. I missed the old Carter, but I knew he’d relax again after a few days when things returned to normal.
• “Your first meeting is a teleconference call with King Magnus, to discuss the rogues that are settling themselves in Denmark,” Duncan said, as he worked down the list.