Dulce's phone vibrated with a message as she got off work. Her heart got pierced when she saw it was from Aspen. 

 He had texted earlier, so polite about going over to pick up the kids, and all day she had been worried about what would have happened if he and Becker had met. 

 But Dulce had been too shy to ask him and didn't want to piss off Becker by asking him either, so she had just spent the entire day stewing. 

 "Hey. Not that I don't want to keep the kids with me until evening, but my parents are coming over, and I don't want them to see...