"Okay."

After Emma had gotten in, Michael asked, "Emmy, what's been going on while you've been staying with Samuel and Eliana?"

Emma, who was already upset, started spilling everything she knew as soon as Michael asked.

******

Eliana alighted the cab straight at Samuel's office building.

Instead of going in, she sat down on a bench in the nearby garden. She brought out her phone to call Samuel, but she was too angry to make the call.

She missed him. She ...