“Can I come with you, Myra?” Nova asked.
“No, baby.” The Professor said, “It will take less time for her to go alone.”
Myra smiled apologetically at Nova, then turned around and hurried up to her apartment.
She was grateful that the Professor did not give into his daughter’s whims for the first time. That was something that had bothered her all the way here.
If they had offered to come up with her, how would she have turned them down without raising any suspicions?
If they came up with her, there would have been a risk of her cover getting blown.
She had her badge and gun in her closet, and all her identification cards. And then Nova would definitely ask why all the mirrors at her house were masked off, and although the Professor would pretend not to have seen them, he would wonder
