“Are you home with the baby?” she asked, bright and warm.

“I’m outside.”

“Outside where?”

“At the house.

Luca changed the entry code.

Lily and I can’t get in.”

There was no confusion, no hesitation, not a single wasted second.

Evelyn had disliked Luca from the first day she met him, with the clean instinctive certainty of a sister who sees what love has blinded you to.