“Mark? Really?” Millie exhales a slow breath and says conspiratorially, “She should be careful, or her secret boyfriend’s going to get jealous.” I’m still thinking about Freddy Krueger, and it takes me a second to process what she’s just said. “Wait . . . what?” Next to me, Eli smiles and, in a perfect echo of this morning, he says, “Sierra has a boyfriend?” “Secret boyfriend,” Millie says, looking scandalized. “Key word being secret.”
ITS THE DAD
