Chapter 0874

Midnight takes a step closer to Ben, her eyes on him, sufficiently distracted. "Can we have meat?"

"You can have whatever kind of meat you want,” Ben says, grinning at her. "And cakes too - all kids of desert."

For a moment Jesse's heart aches because...well, Midnight's whole world just got turned upside down, it makes sense that she's afraid. But it's a little bit horrible how sufficiently she's distracted from that trauma by the simple offer of food.

He determines, inwardly, to make sure this girl is never, ever hungry again. Not a day in her life.

"How?" Midnight says, looking around. "Do you...cook in the big fireplace?"

"Actually,” Ben says, grinning at her. "See that door across the room, built into the wall?"

He points at the dumbwaiter over by Rafe's bed and Midnight's eyes flash to it. She nods.

"That's a magic door," Ben whispers. "Come on, I'll show you how it works." Midnight's eyes fly wide and then excitement takes her expression.

to Jesse, clasping him on the shoulder for a moment and giving him a steady smile. "We'll ensure

demonstrating its current empty state before he hands her a

of them, already

nod, more comfortable with him than

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feed my guests, especially a pregnant guest." The pair laugh a little and Jesse give them a little

human girl as the trio sits in a small formal living room outside a conference room in which

Hank

on the far side of the coffee table, talking lightly, but Mark's eyes continue to return anxiously to his brother. Because Rafe is usually so easy

of tea about the goings-on of the war, Ella's worries about her missing daughters,

into then

the

stuff he's heard before

who sits with his shoulders hunched and his jaw clenched, staring determinedly at his cold cup of tea on the coffee

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