Chapter 17: Please Tell Me He's Different In The Future

Julian couldn't give an accurate time estimate when he was going into this blind. He supposed he could run some experiments using the data he had taken tonight while at work but that would require making his underlings take over what he had been working on before this.

"I don't know how long this will take," he confessed. "I might need to see the watch every day for the foreseeable future."

Izzy spoke up for the first time in a while. "I won't be able to come right after work then. I'll need to feed these guys and I can't afford to do takeout every day."

That would explain the cheap pizza. She did mention she had become their guardian recently…was she having a hard time paying for three children's expenses on her own? He supposed she was working with a library worker's salary. Those weren't terribly high.