First, Ella had hit up the Perk, because a girl needed her caffeine and to be as extra at these baristas as possible, because these poor bastards had never met her.

Then it was following her nose to the family member she could scent on the island -- well, one of them, she could smell a kid that smelled like mom -- and let it lead her straight to the hotel.

Knocking, however, was for amateurs, and Ella let herself in after half a second of sweet-talking the lock.

"You got pants on, or should I pretend to be traumatized?"