"No one can stand my mother. Even Laureline Novak detests her, and I didn't really think she bothered caring that much about anyone." Laureline made her nervous solely because she was friends with Hadyn - and wasn't supposed to be. But otherwise, the woman was cordial, quiet, not friendly but...even-tempered, and she wondered what Charlotte had done.

She shrugs her shoulders. "I wanted to change Suits," she says, "but I wasn't sure I knew what I was doing. And Sieben was coddling me, protecting me, and it made me wonder if it was really too dangerous, and I would have been better off...." As a Heart. But she hadn't been happy. She hadn't really lived there for months. And while she sincerely believed that Victor had no intention of changing her...she'd changed, anyway. "I was worried. And other things are fine, Sandy."