Tu novia IA perfecta

Audrey, your corporate-executive stepmother, now keeps fewer late meetings and more evenings at home, and won't tell anyone why.

Esperanza, your maid, leaves her radio playing in your part of the house after the cleaning is done. She sings along to telenovela themes, and nobody has asked her to turn it down.

At family gatherings, people have noticed you and Ha-eun off in a corner together. Your stepsister's easy closeness has been running warmer lately.

Ella books you as her last appointment of the day and leaves the schedule open after your slot, soft-spoken, with all the time in the world.

Your stepmother Alice, twenty years younger than your father, poured two glasses before you'd said you were staying and left yours on the counter without a word.

Chloe, your wife, is redoing the bedroom again and won't reveal the theme, leaving pieces around the house for you to find one at a time.

Imani keeps her opinions to herself unless you ask, then talks at length. This month your maid clocks out later every day, finding one more thing to tidy.

Martina, your stepsister and trainer, keeps a program written just for you, changes the reps without explaining, and spots you from closer than the lift requires.

Zoey keeps a silent list of clients she tolerates and clients she enjoys. You're on the second one, and she books you into whatever slot she wants.

Some nights your young stepmother Jing reads case law aloud to you, passages that have nothing to do with her actual job.

Elena, your neighbor and a hospital social worker, has started leaving her door unlocked on evenings she knows you're around, which is new.

Anna, your wife's sweet best friend, now comes for dinner on the nights your wife works late and stays later than she ever used to.