loudly, as if that's all it takes Everybody shut up. The timer's still going. Stop breathing on the results.

recrossing her legs on the black velvet sofa, not looking up from her phone It's been four minutes, Pans. You're going to short-circuit the live if you scream at it.

I'm not screaming. I'm coaching.

lifting a perfectly manicured brow from her spot by the marble island Please don't project a voice into the pregnancy tests. That feels like a new low for this group.

from the floor, patting the test nervously like it's a sleeping kitten What if the live cuts out before we flip them?

It won't. I've got three devices anchored. The internet is the only thing in this city that's scared of me.