Ryder POV

Next morning

My first instinct is to keep it between us for a while. Just the two of us, and Doc, and Mara, and Luna, who already know—which I realize even as I think it means the window for privacy has approximately twelve hours before one of them breaks.

I find Jolie at the kitchen table before dawn with her tea, glow soft in the dark, and I sit across from her and say, "How long before Mara tells everyone?"

She considers this seriously. "She made it through last night. That's ...