Guarded Intentions

Valerie’s POV

Organizing the banquet gave me a renewed sense of purpose, something that I had been lacking since I woke up in the hospital missing the past six years. Though I loved my family, and have enjoyed getting to know them, I needed something to focus on, some way to feel like I was bettering society somehow.

This banquet was my chance to do just that. It wasn’t just a party for me, to ann