Meanwhile, in an alternate universe where everyone has five minutes to process their trauma…
Author: Okay, everybody. Before Chapter 66, we're having a mandatory mental-health meeting.
Roman: No.
Author: I didn't even explain it yet.
Roman: I heard "mental health." No.
Elena: He's going.
Roman: …I'll consider it.
Theo: Wow.
Roman: What?
Theo: Twenty years as an international mystery man. Mercenary contacts. Secret tunnels. Guns. Threats. Torture couldn't break you.
Simone: One girlfriend comes back from the dead—
Theo: "Yes, ma'am."
Roman: I will shoot both of you.
Elena: Roman.
Roman: I will politely disagree with both of you.
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Allison: Can we discuss why everybody in my life is secretly connected to a criminal organization?
Author: Plot.
Allison: That's not an answer.
Author: It's literally the answer.
Lucian: She's had enough.
Author: You stay out of this. Your dead grandfather came back to life.
Lucian: Unfortunately.
