His expression was complicated. It had only been seven or eight months, but he never expected her to have changed so drastically.
He had woken up in the middle of the night yesterday to find himself in an unfamiliar place. He remembered heading toward Stella Sterling's apartment complex before he passed out. Waking up in a strange place, his first thought was that Basil Xavier had brought him to Stella, and that she had taken them in.
He later learned that while the situation was similar to what he'd imagined, the details were quite different.
He never imagined so much had happened while he was unconscious!
He listened as Basil Xavier recounted the events, describing how ferocious she was—a life for every slash of her blade, a ruthless she-devil who killed without batting an eye.
It sounded so unreal to him, as if Basil were talking about a complete stranger.
