The Serpent's Heart
Bones barked beside Prez, cutting off my spiraling thought and looking across us all as Prez turned his attention to the room.
His expression set in that hard, unyielding line that made him our boss. "Charlotte is back," he announced, earning a few hushed whispers of surprise from those that hadn't been here. "For good this time." He continued, cutting off the chatter, his expression hardening with a dark edge of a pissed off father. "But, she didn't come back because she missed us - she did it out of survival. That little square Arthur Verlaine, her husband," he spat the word, his hands curling into fists of contained rage. "Kept her from us, beat my little girl and tried to murder her toni