I didn't get to say anything else because, as luck would have it, my mother chose that exact moment to join us. Naturally. Hayle timing and all that delightfulness that just complicated matters.
From the widening of her eyes and the way she gaped at me, I know she caught the last few words as she stepped out of the veil, GreatGram beside her, the powerhouse team stopping in their tracks at the sight of Piers with us and, I assume, my bloodthirsty pronouncement of pending murder.
Leave it to GreatGram to cut the tension with her fine-tuned sense of humor. "While I'm on your side when it comes to the end of Viviana Tepes," she said, not surprisingly the quicker of the pair to recover from the shock, Mom still stunned and spluttering, "a trial really is in order, don't you think? Rather tha
