Chapter 9Maya was surprised when Dec didn’t sit down with her to eat. It wasn’t that she expected him to dine with her, especially since his diet was a liquid one, but she’d thought they’d reached a semi-understanding when he’d left. Now, he was back to being oddly distant. She didn’t like it.
“I’m going to bring one of the others around for you to examine,” he said from where he hovered near the door. “The progression of the poison is most severe with Danny, so the others are more manageable, especially if I’m around. You shouldn’t have the same problems this time.”
“There’s also the fact that I’ll have better equipment. It’ll be more thorough than the exam I did on Katie.”
“Do you need to redo that one?”
She shook her head. “I should be fine with what I have. If I find out later I ne
