Aria's POV

If I had told Mila the truth, she might have started to believe that I was Isabella too, and I wasn't ready to lose the only person who saw me for who I really was.

She nodded slowly. “That’s good.”

“We need to proceed calmly until we get out of here. So… what’s the next plan now?”

I took a deep breath, bracing myself for her reaction. “We’ll be staying here for a month.”

“What?” cried Mila, her eyes wide with disbelief.

“Then we’ll go back to New York.”

Mila stood up, coming face to