Here’s the first time the MMC and the FMC in my new release meet! (She was in the audience the day before when he had to fight 20 men and he definitely noticed her but they didn’t actually meet.) He’s now staying with Dmitri, another Badari he’s met.

He heard the front door open behind him but didn’t think anything of it, assuming Dmitri had been out for an early morning run. “I’ll cook us breakfast,” he said, turning with his hands full of the supplies he’d found, only to do a doubletake and st...