I was worried the reporters would keep tailing us, so I planned to go straight home and placed an order to have an errand delivery service drop the dog food at my place.

When we were a little over thirty feet from the pet store I usually went to, Sean—who’d been talking work with me—glanced at the storefront. “You said this morning you were going to buy dog food.”

I didn’t pull over. “I ordered it. The errand delivery service will bring it to my ...