Millie receives a confirmation text from Douglas Garrick asking if she will come to the penthouse that night. Although she already planned to shop for groceries and clean, she answers immediately, aware of Douglas’s rigid organization and the high pay.

With no class that day, Millie thinks about her relationship with Brock and why she keeps refusing to stay at his apartment too often. Millie worries that spending more nights there would turn into moving in, which Millie cannot do until Millie tells Brock the truth about Millie’s past. Millie fears Brock might leave, or that Brock’s wealthy parents would push him to end things once they learn what Millie is hiding.

Millie reflects on a previous relationship with Enzo Accardi, beginning as friends after a job ended abruptly. Millie and Enzo helped numerous women escape abusive relationships, sometimes using Enzo’s underworld connections to secure fake identification, burner phones, and travel. Enzo encouraged Millie to return to college for social work, giving Millie hope for a lawful, normal future despite Millie’s prison record.

Millie recounts how Millie and Enzo became a couple, moved in together quickly, and how the relationship collapsed when Enzo left for Sicily after learning Enzo’s mother had a stroke. Enzo insisted it was safe because earlier threats were “taken care of,” but Enzo never returned; after a year apart, Enzo admitted Enzo could not leave his mother, and Millie ended the relationship rather than wait indefinitely. The memory sharpens the contrast between Enzo’s dangerous, resourceful world and Brock’s stable, conventional one.

Millie heads out to shop for Douglas’s unusual grocery list and is stopped in the stairwell by Xavier, the man who lives directly below Millie and has a scar over his eyebrow. Xavier introduces himself, already knows Millie’s name, and presses for conversation and companionship despite Millie’s curt answers. Millie leaves quickly, feeling watched and unsettled, and considers moving—possibly to Brock’s place—to get away from Xavier.