Whether I was frightened, or all right, or where I would sleep that night.

A woman had been abandoned alone in Europe, and it had set off no alarm in that family at all.

But the word divorce had set the entire house on fire.

That single data point told me everything I needed to know about what I had truly been to them, and I filed it, and I let their calls ring out, and I opened my banking app instead.

Chapter 7 — The Hotel Charge

I had logged in only to check that I could cover the new flight.