Chapter 108: He'll Be Back
Sedona's POV
"Mom is very wise."
"Mom is terrifyingly wise and I've been trying to avoid her being wise at me about this specific topic for—" He stopped.
"For how long?" I asked.
He was quiet.
"Cameron. How long have you been sitting on this?"
Another pause, longer, the pause of a man counting backward through something he'd been tracking without admitting he was tracking it.
"Eighteen months," he said.
The room was very quiet.
Durian looked at the ceiling with the expression of someone who knew this number and had been waiting for it to be said out loud and was now experiencing the specific satisfaction of that happening.
Dante looked at me. I looked at Dante. Something passed between us that didn't require words—the understanding of two people who'd
