“Why? Won’t that just give her more of an opportunity to slip away from us?”

“She won’t slip away from us,” Eliza assured him.

“But Mila didn’t say to do that,” Sergio continued.

“She’s on her way out the front door,” Cassidy told Eliza.

Sergio continued to justify his reasoning for getting on her immediately, so much so that he missed Honey coming out the door on the arm of a tall man who didn’t look too different from the fellow she’d picked out the night before.

“That guy she’s with is still a human, for now. His name is Daven, and he’s worried that his wife will know he’s...