Sterling is with a client.

I can take a message.”

“Tell him the signature is in blue.”

“I’m sorry?”

“He’ll know what it means,” I said, though I wasn’t sure he would.

Rachel came out of the station with two coffees in styrofoam cups and a napkin folded around a candy bar.

She handed me one, looked at my face, and didn’t ask.

“If I hit the numbers tonight,” she said, “I’m buying that house back for one dollar and making him pay the closing costs.”