[ All Nate gets for that is a knowing smirk. True, Rafe wasn't one to broadcast but what needed to be known, was known — within reason, of course. (The good folks at Interpol, for instance, would surely liked to have known more concrete facts but them's the breaks.) But there's a difference between a fact being unknown and being a secret, which was the key here and which was why Rafe didn't bother to play the game. Besides. Fifteen years for Avery have taught him patience, and no Party City reject mask will be enough to stop him before he finds a way to get it off.

But he's not here to argue semantics.

That little tidbit and the delivery thereof has him arching an eyebrow, invisible though it may be beneath the mask. ]

You almost make it sound like not all's well with your little happily ever after. Would've thought you'd be thrilled, just one big treasure-hunting family.