Chapter 68

Tristin turns her eyes to me as soon as I am seated, the baby in

her lap looking up at me curiously. “Hello, Fay,” she says, her face

cold. But hey, at least she’s talking to me.

“Hi,” I say, giving her as bright a smile as I can manage. Romulus

peaks around her to give me a happy wave, which I return.

My father, on Romulus‘ other side, turns to me as well. “We

wanted to apologize, Fay, as a family. For the events at our house

yesterday.”

“Oh, please,” I say, waving a hand to dismiss it. “Don’t worry

about it. I understand that it’s…awkward. That I’m sort of a new

addition, and that I screwed up some of your plans. I’m…sorry

about that, by the way.” I look into Tristin’s face as I say it.

“Not a new addition, Fay,” my father says, looking at me steadily. “A love one returned to us after a long parting.”

“Yes,” Tristin says, her voice low and rehearsed. “You are a

flick to Kent and Daniel then, and

I wonder why.

the chitchat a little dull. I get a lot of family history,

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their journey to America from

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never thought much about my ethnicity, but with my red hair and

and roman noses, they look

me these,” I say to

the pictures back to him. “I’m

myself these days.”

so much more to learn,” he says, giving me

I return.

goes quite late, with

playing the oldies

not a bad time, overall – even Daniel is

seems to be having a poor time- or, at

always glancing around the room,

everyone who comes to say hello. I

he looks critically over an old woman who introduced herself as my great aunt. Does he ever have

time?

feels me watching him and turns his

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his eyebrow.

to try to loosen up

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