Julia's POV

I had no excuse left to stay at Caesar's house. My time was up.

Sitting in the condominium's common area beneath the pale afternoon sun, I rocked Adam's stroller mechanically. In the end, Caesar was more resistant than I'd imagined. At least there were no conversations with Camille on his phone... just my mother, constantly dropping hints that I wasn't going to leave his house.

Even so, I'd been expecting some kind of progress from him, but Caesar always pulled back.

"So this