‘Make him leave!’ I bark back and get an annoyed frown from Mico this time, which makes me pipe down. I don’t want to be pissing off my hero, even if he has questionable loyalty! I mean why else would that tosser be here, if Mico hadn’t told him?

I’m losing the buzz anyway, the fun is fading away, and tiredness is coming back. I guess it was a temporary high from the shock of seeing the idiot again and it is expelled already. I’m still fuming internally, although shock and something else is sweeping through my body, and I just feel raw and vulnerable now—emotions threatening to the surface....