Dominic Nova insisted that Susie sit in the front passenger seat. Dominic didn’t intercede in the debate that lasted all of two seconds before Susie agreed graciously to take the front. Dominic was irritated by it though. Ever since he had drawn new boundaries between him and Nova yesterday afternoon, she had been finding professional ways to give him the cold shoulder. He recognized not sitting up front with him as one of them, even under the guise of being kind to her sister. “So, do we get to know why my little sister is coming to work with me today?” Nova asked from the backseat as Dominic pulled out of the Side-by-Side parking lot. “Did you ever get that restraining order I requested?” Dominic asked instead of answering her question. He didn’t mean to sound so mad, but he had

