"All right, stop arguing. Now. We can't have Laura seeing any sort of divisiveness between us," Aaron ordered as firmly as he could without sounding as if he had lost his cool himself, their trick of moving to IAC not fooling him in the least.

As she was saying, "Sorry," aloud, Cadence said directly to Eliza, "I hate you."

"Feeling is mutual," Eliza shot back. "I'll be nice."

Elliott popped in the door, looking a little rushed and disheveled. "Sorry, I'm... on time," he said taking a seat next to Cadence. She looked at him questioningly, and he glanced at his wrist, where there was no watch and said, "What?...