"It'd have been a miracle if he was anything else," and literally everyone who's ever met them could attest that the mixture of Swann's determinedness and Jason's stubbornness was going to create a bull-headed little monster of a child. She clings to Gus for a moment, touches his face. "No. I sent pictures, when he was a baby, but who knows if they got through."

Everything had been so secret, even from her husband (they still aren't married, but they've lied about it and lived together for so long that it hardly matters), though the care packages, the money, had been the nest egg she'd been able to combine with Jason's money to make their lives easier. Let them own a business and let her stay home during the days. She could never express enough gratitude toward those who made it easier.

"Look at this beard, you look like a farmer." She laughs. "They're not making you grow potatoes in the vaults, are they?"