The Phoenix Rising team stayed for a while longer, just enough to be polite, before they all found a good excuse to leave the condo, looking over their shoulders while they did.
"I don't think you made any new friends," I smiled at Rip when only Chang Guo Zi remained behind.
Rip shrugged his shoulders, not caring in the least. But it still made me laugh. "I wasn't really trying to."
"I'm sorry about that," interrupted Chang Guo Zi as he looked around the living room. My men had all come back, freshly showered, and were lounging around the room with Bin An Sha and Cheng Bo Jing in the kitchen, trying to figure out dinner.
"Like Bai said, there are always growing pains when integrating two teams together," smiled Ye Yao Zu from where he sat on the larger couch beside me. I was pressed tightly between him and Fan Teng Fei, but I didn't mind in the least.
