One of these days, I would doubt the Gardeners a little too much and Zach was going to play handball with my head.

Nice work,” I commented drily. “How old was that littlest one? Five? Did she put up a terrible fight?””I feared for my life,” Zach said with a perfectly straight face. “You must be bored, Julia....

These raids didn’t usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.