“You answer only the question you’re asked,” I said.

“You don’t add anything.

If they ask where you were on October twelfth, you say North Dakota.

You don’t say working to pay her bills.”

Clay nodded.

He tapped his pen on his pad.

“What sentence is the judge going to give Jaclyn at the hearing?” he asked.

“That depends entirely on how we lay out this evidence,” I said.