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Chapter 2<br />

DINNER, DIVORCE, AND DELAY<br />

Long shadows crept across the lavish<br />

fountains of the Walker estate. At dusk the mansion<br />

lights twinkled as the Lee family hiked up their<br />

neighbor’s driveway. A full week had passed since<br />

the boys’ triumph over Team Omega, and tonight<br />

their families were coming together to decide who<br />

would chaperone them to Hong Kong. Henry<br />

naturally assumed it would be his parents, but both<br />

had been strangely tight-lipped the moment they<br />

had learned of the trip.<br />

Mr. Lee buttoned his blazer while Mrs. Lee<br />

smoothed her fingers over Anne Mai’s long straight<br />

bangs. Henry saw this and quickly rang the Walkers’<br />

doorbell before his mother’s primping fingers could<br />

reach him.<br />

Walsh’s mother, Lolana Walker, answered the<br />

door. “Welcome to our home,” she said. The<br />

statuesque lady leaned against a ten-foot entryway,<br />

her white gown raining sequins to the floor.<br />

“Good evening. Thank you for inviting us,”<br />

Mrs. Lee offered politely as she and her family<br />

shuffled indoors.<br />

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