"All I've been dealing with is how many push-ups I can do in a row because there's nothing else to do in hiding!" Alex didn't want to have a real argument with him, not when she might not get to see him again for a while, but she also wasn't about to let him leave her out of his vigilante squad.

"It's two hundred, by the way," she says with very deliberate casualness. "And I only stopped because I got bored." She smiles cockily back at him. "We both know I could kick the ass of anyone else you get to join."