Lydia replied with a detached "Oh" and hung up the phone.

She sat in her car at the intersection for a while, lost in thought, before realizing she had turned the wrong way. Reign’s place was to the east, hers was to the west. She’d been staying at his place so often lately that she’d gotten used to driving east without thinking.

But tonight, she couldn’t go there. She had to make room for Wendy, so she could only head back to her own little ...