No, but the program had made them nothing if not capable improvisers. The benefit of their training allowed them to appear as a family and by doing that enough she'd been able to fool even herself. Or had she? What she felt for her girls and even for Alexi was true. When she lost her family she felt that loss.

And to see Yelena laugh even a little lifted her heart. Melina wiped away the tear trail off Yelena's cheek with the back of her knuckle.

"She has given us a chance to make her proud, we will do this, yes?" She lifted Yelena's chin and gave her a solid look expecting an answer.