Myrtle developed an extensive menu of baked goods and candies, though she’d had to use store-bought honey. Adam’s bees had not yet had the time to make a crop of their own.

October ran the shop’s website. She also ordered a number of bee-themed knickknacks, applied price tags, and arranged them on a shelf facing the window. “Might draw in tourists,” she said.

Dante refused to play along with the business that he considered a “front” for their real mission until Adam put him in charge of security. He made Clint his second-in-command and began training him to fight better.