Madeline:
After a little head-to-head time together, the kids helped me clean the room.
I didn’t want to call room service for such a mess.
Besides, it wasn’t like we were doing anything else, so I cleaned most of it while the kids helped.
Finally, Nina arrived. I was relieved because the kids loved her, and she could keep them calm for a while.
I went down to the hotel lobby to meet Graham and discuss the details of our interaction with the old man.
We had a lot to go over that day, to try to make sense of what had happened.
We couldn’t hold the meeting in any of the rooms, not even in my suite, because Kaylee was uncomfortable.
It wasn’t that Graham had said so, in fact, he’d suggested meeting in my suite.
But I was the one who insisted we hold it in the lobby.
I didn’t want th
