Even though he had fully expected the punch, Mateo still flinched a little as her fist connected with his arm. The girl packed a whallup, that was for damn sure. He knew without a doubt that he was going to have a bruise there if he didn't put a salve on it the moment he got home. It was a good thing that his small emergency kit wasn't one of the things that he was still waiting on to be delivered, wasn't it?
Home. It was still strange to think of Snowcap as home now, but that's exactly what it was. It had always been like a second home to him, considering how much time he'd spent up there with the Adler family, but now he actually lived there. It was so far from what he was used to - sun, sand, and surf - that it was more of an adjustment than he'd expected. Still, he was well on his way to making his new life up in the mountains.
Which, of course, led him to her questions.
"I take it you haven't talked to Freddy yet?" Or her mom, or Cao for that matter, considering he'd been at the Kestral or the Diner nearly every night since he'd arrived. "I may have quit working at Saint Bloomsbury."