“You want to talk about Myra now?” Brianna said, disbelieving as she stared at Milo. “I really can’t. I have an appointment.”

“Here?” Milo asked, and looked at the apartment building. “Your appointment is here?” He eyed her suspiciously.

She checked her watch. She wasn’t scheduled to meet with Jase for another fifteen minutes, but she wasn’t certain she wanted to spend the time alone with Milo; there was just something about him that she didn’t trust.

“You followed me. And you came to my house and looked in my bathroom window.”

He didn’t answer, but actually blushed, as if embarrassed.

“While I was showering!”

“No . . . no . . . I’d rung the bell. Really. I wanted . . . I needed to talk to you and you didn’t answer. I saw lights on, so I walked around the house and . . .”

“Looked at me while I was showering? Is that what you’re telling me?”

“You were out of the shower. You had a towel around you.”

“Doesn’t matter! That’s voyeurism, Milo. I could have you arrested! I should have you arrested! You can’t go around peeping in windows.”

“You wouldn’t!” He was nervous now, his tongue darting around the corners of his mouth.

“I’m not sure about that.” She was furious and wanted to let him have it with both barrels. “You scared me to death!”

“I just . . . I just didn’t know how to talk to you.” He seemed sincere and confused and upset. “I’m sorry. Really. Please,” he said. “I just want to talk about Myra. I thought you cared about the whole twinless twin thing . . . I . . .”

A horn blasted as a minivan rolled down the street.

“Okay,” Brianna said. “Just find a parking spot. I’ll wait.”

“You could just hop into the van.”

No way would she jump into a van with a guy who had admitted to peering through her windows, a man who, at some level, made her more than nervous. She clicked off her phone’s camera but put it in alarm mode, should she need to call for help. She considered moving her Honda, parked as it was in a tow-away zone, but decided this hastily convened meeting would only take a few minutes. Twinless twin or not, it was all the time she could give him.

It took Milo five minutes to park his vehicle and walk back to her spot near the tree, and she couldn’t help but second-guess her own sanity at having agreed to this. She glanced around the area, just to make certain she wasn’t alone.