Chapter 28: Syd Wishes He Was an Alien“What are you doing here? I thought you’d left!” Anouk called out to him in the crowded hall of the Warehouse. “Missed us too much, huh?”
Syd held the elevator doors for her. “I forgot a few things in my desk,” he said, sticking his sunglasses into his jacket. The sun had finally come out this morning. “And I need to pick up my last pay check from Stan.”
“I thought you were on an assignment in the Laurentians. Didn’t you leave last week?”
Last week, he’d been on the road with Rudi. Last week, he’d been under an alien spell. And here he was today, dressed, clean shaven, and barely crazy. The human mind was like an elastic. Or maybe it was just him. Maybe he’d survived too much to fall apart now.
But man, did he miss Rudi. Everything about him. He’d
