“It was for your own good!” Liam said, for not the first time. “But there was this week where things went... kind of weird? Remember how I said an ‘opportunity came up’ to renovate the apartment?”

She’d probably noticed by now that while another room had been added, the actual apartment footprint hadn’t changed; nor had any of the existing rooms gotten smaller to make space for the new one. That was... generally not how renovating was supposed to work.