"With that out of the way… How lucky are we that Natasha appeared on the stream?"
"Yeah!" Nyx nodded along.
"I was really surprised," Kaiden said.
"I organized everything," Vespera announced.
"…Huh?" Six voices gasped at once.
The silence that followed lasted three full seconds, which was approximately two and a half seconds longer than this particular group of women had ever been collectively quiet about anything.
Kaiden looked at his mother.
"What do you mean, you organized everything?"
His voice was dry. Wry, even. The tone of a man who had watched this woman smile with her eyes closed while her husband's mistress dismantled his reputation in real time, and was now putting the pieces together in the order they should have been obvious.
Vespera shrugged. A small motion against the couch, the same economical movement she gave to most things that didn't warrant full sentences.
