The car pulled away from the curb in silence.
Neither Samantha nor the twins uttered a word as they left the villa where Arianne was staying.
City light slid past in a blur. Samantha kept her eyes on the road, one hand on the wheel, the other resting near the gearshift. In the rearview mirror, she caught a glimpse of the twins sitting side by side in the backseat.
They were quieter than usual.
When Lily called to ask her to bring them to meet Arianne, Samantha never imagined they would make such an outrageous proposal. It never occurred to her that the twins had been harboring such ideas for the past few days.
Leo erased something on his board, then wrote it again, only to erase it once more. His sister sat with her hands folded neatly in her lap, her gaze fixed on the darkening sky.
Samantha didn't speak right away, but she sensed what the twins were thinking.
She waited until the car stopped at a red light before asking. "Do you think your Aunt Aria was angry?"
