Chapter 2113 Guilty Pleasures:>19

To say that the end of the cruise was weird was underselling it. It was almost entirely surreal. Dinner together that last night had been terribly uncomfortable for everyone, as far as I could tell. Not one word was spoken about what had happened. My eyes even managed to behave themselves for the first time since Anne had walked into my stateroom. But there was this almost hysterical edge to the evening, with every joke, every funny story getting gales of borderline desperate laughter.