At midnight, Jolie was lying on her side on her bed, having kept the bedroom door open and staring at it unblinkingly. She heard giggling and whispering coming up the stairs and she sat up curiously.
“There she is,” Brix said loudly and when Malik and Elio both chastised him saying he was going to wake Pia, he whispered making wide eyes at her, “there she is. My beautiful wife.”
She shook her head and sighed, “what did you give him?” His eyes were shiny and luminous, and he was clearly off his head on a drug. “He’s high.”
Elio looked at her sadly, “he’s had morphine. He usually doesn’t take any medications and it’s hitting him especially hard.”
Brix looked to Malik with wide-eyed horror, “oh no.”
“What?”
“I’m high. She’s going to fear me. I’m high like Val.”
Jolie giggled at his wor
