She knew when I would be flying in remote country with no phone.

She knew we locked our phones away on flight days.

She knew my neighbor Beatrice had known my family for thirty years, and would hesitate to call the police on a note in my own hand, and would instead wait, and worry, and keep trying to reach my dead phone line — for exactly the six days of silence Evelyn needed.

She had not been trying to lovingly return my son to me.