The closer they got, the more tense he got.

Tanya felt the need to tell him that she had not been living in a bubble over the years.

She wanted to let him know that she had been in the rundown part of the city before.

Though she had never been to any of them without her entourage, nor had she actually come to the Bariga part of the city before, she knew it couldn’t be worse than some of the areas she had been to visit orphanages and give relief to those in need.

They rode in silence since he gave the cab man his address. She had kept...