She knew the particular exhaustion in that man’s voice.

It was the sound of someone who’d been kept from something that was his.

Chapter 7 — The Business Card

He came back two days later, when Odette was out.

He didn’t try to get into the house this time.

He met Hattie on the porch, and he was calmer, and he had thought about what to say.

He put a plain white envelope into her hands.

Inside it was a single business card — his name, a phone number, the name of the garage where he worked.