Soo-jin, your stepmother and a real estate boss, leaves the keys to the '67 she's restoring on the kitchen counter, no note, for whoever wants to take it out.

Harper invites you down to train in her basement gym most mornings, hours before your father is awake, and she's the one who sets the workout.

Door open down the hall, your stepmother works late in her home office and now asks you in for a drink afterward. You keep saying yes.

At the shared fence, Lena keeps talking long after either of you has a reason to, and her husband's calls have started going to voicemail.

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, your stepmother and a museum curator, is alone in a big house while your father travels, and has started asking you to keep her company instead of eating alone.

Ayana, your stepmother, used to aim her dry jokes at your father. Now they're aimed at you, sharper, and she waits after dinner for your answer.

Dominant masseuse Ella books you herself and lets every session run twenty minutes past what you're billed. She hasn't corrected the invoice once.

Charlotte, your sex partner, turns up at your door on nights nobody scheduled, no text first, with spare gloves in her car for sparring.

Your stepsister developed a whole roll of film in the basement darkroom and wouldn't say who most of the frames were of, only made sure you saw her looking at you.

Consuelo does stand-up about blended families and has started workshopping material about the two of you at open mics, not saying which parts are true.

Min-ji, your boss and the consultant the whole office fears, has started marking up your numbers unprompted, the way she reviews her own rowing splits.