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When I consider this, I have to agree… it makes sense Still doesn’t mean I want to talk about it, because it takes ti of wounds I’d rather just let hurry up and close Still, I truly don’t have a choice

Not if I want to continue working at Jameson

“All right” Iback in ht as well get this started”

“Excellent,” she replies with a sparkling s to be pretty boring, actually Background inforrew up, relationships with your family members, choices that led you into this career, etc”

“Got it,” I reply This would be the easy part

Leaning an elbow on one of the armrests, she says, “Tell me about your family, Malik I understand you have dual citizenship with the US and Canada?”

I nod “My dad is a French-Canadian doctor Mycoach I was born and raised in Montreal, and I have two brothers and a sister”

“Where do you fall in line as?” she asks

“Let’s see…” My face scrunches slightly as I suck at birthdays and shit like that, but I do love s, so it eventually comes to me “Max is the oldest, and he’s twenty-nine now Then Lucas is next… he’s twenty-eight Then me—I’m twenty-six—and, finally, Simone is the baby at twenty-three”

“And I seem to re in the big conference rooe went bananas when he learned your brothers play for the Cold Fury as that’s his favorite hockey team”

I can’t help but laugh Cage had been hilarious at thatwhen I’d first been introduced, and he’d made the connection I had two famous brothers “Yeah… Max and Lucas both play for the Cold Fury”

Her head tilts “Did you play hockey, too?”

“I did Both Max and Lucas will tell you that I could have gone pro, too, but it just wasn’tcould sway me from that”

“A French-Canadian kid anted to join the US ”

“It’s inhis stories growing up”

We continue to talk in the saround information She prods into my personal life and about whether I’ve had any serious roative answer, not because I’ issue In that I never see Special Forces in the Marines, and noith Jameson, it’s been a bit hard to even date so-held-in-captivity-for-five-