The optimistic brother

MITCH

It had been two months since we woke up from our comatose state. Things had been going well. There had been no report from the men we assigned to search for Edith and Fred. It was as if the two of them went into hiding. The hunters dispatched to get them had all been called back to the city. Since there was no word from them, it made little sense to keep them in the city.

What we did was employ two of them to always stay with Summer. She returned to the city last week and has been going to work every day. We guessed it was dangerous and wanted to keep her with us, but she was determined.

She thought we would only turn her lazy should she spend so much time with us. Her belly had gotten bigger, which was another reason for our proposal, but she was persistent about that.

We promised her things, to get her to stay with us, but she didn't even bat an eye to that, talking about how a woman needed her independence more than anything else. Amusing, right? Okay, not so. We respected