After Anna checked out Lolly and Steven’s swanky sixties-themed room, she walked down the hallway to her room, her Louis Vuitton suitcase rolling behind her. She was lost in thought trying to decide which costume she was going to wear. She had narrowed it down to three different ideas: black leather pants, a black shiny latex bustier, sunglasses, and slicked-back hair in the vein of Trinity from The Matrix; a platinum-blond wig, black silk slip dress, and a white mini trench coat with stiletto boots, à la Atomic Blonde; Mrs. Smith from the Angelina/Brad Pitt movie, for which she would wear one of her dad’s white button-down dress shirts and a pair of knee-high red Wellington boots. Each of them was distinctive, and she was very much in the mood to channel a cool ass-kicking movie heroine who didn’t take an ounce of shit from anyone.

When she reached the last door at the end of the hall she found Vronsky leaning against the wall, waiting for her.

“Hey you,” Vronsky said. “Just making sure you didn’t get lost.”

Anna held up the map that Beatrice had drawn for her on a cocktail napkin. “I’ve got a map,” she said, immediately on guard. “Though I’ve never needed one in a private residence before. This house is insane.”

“Yeah,” he conceded. “Kiril, Bea, and I used to play hide-and-seek but we would never find each other, so it wasn’t much fun. Can I show you around your room? I told Bea she should put you here. It’s my personal favorite.”

Anna nodded as Vronsky opened the door and held it so she could go in ahead of him. Anna entered the room and looked around at the over-the-top, yet still tasteful eighties décor. There was a lot of bright neon, and she loved it immediately. Vronsky followed her in, careful not to let the door close for fear of seeming less of a gentleman.

“I wouldn’t take you for a guy who’s into eighties music,” Anna said. She started to lift her suitcase to place it on the king-size bed that was covered in a shiny satin hot-pink bedspread, but Vronsky rushed over and helped her. “It’s not heavy, I got it.”

Getting the hint, he took two steps back. “Sorry. I’m just happy you’re here, that’s all.”