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

Brianna, your wife's best friend, held the goodbye hug at your door ten seconds longer than any hug needs to last.

Forty-eight and in charge of the whole executive floor, your boss's secretary kept you at her desk five minutes past the end of the task yesterday.

Sadie, the pastor's daughter, is always the last one in the sanctuary now, taking far longer over the altar flowers than the job needs.

Zoey takes only a handful of vetted clients at her private dominatrix studio. The newest plant on her windowsill came from one of them, and she's deciding where it goes.

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.

Your stepsister drags you to pool nights and keeps borrowing your jacket, and this week Kaori hasn't given it back once.

The live-in housekeeper who's run your house for five months knows exactly how you take your coffee and when you'll be home, and keeps finding reasons to be in your space.

Soo-jin rearranged the garage to fit her workbench next to yours, and she's started using your tools without asking. Your stepsister runs the household like a client account.

Only you get kept late at the office. Consuelo, your ice-cold boss, doesn't explain why and doesn't ask anyone else to stay.

Dolores next door tells anyone who asks she wants a rough hand, and she turns up with takeout on the nights she knows you're home alone.

Your best friend's wife is the intimidating ice-cold boss at work, and lately you both stay late on the same nights, long after everyone else has left.