The next morning, Phei had barely finished breakfast with the entire family before the atmosphere inside the penthouse changed.
It had been a noisy meal, the sort that became inevitable when too many people with too many personalities shared one enormous table after several days of disasters, disappearances and secrets.
Landon was still defending the previous night's heroic contribution to household security through repeated consumption of expensive food, Maddie had been arguing with Soraya over something neither woman seemed willing to explain properly, Maya had somehow wandered through three separate conversations without ever finishing the first, and Phei had spent most of breakfast occasionally looking toward Melissa with a happiness he was beginning to suspect everyone would notice if he kept failing to control his face.
Melissa still had not shared the pregnancy.
