“He thinks you took expensive things.”

“I took clothes, my laptop, and documents I was entitled to keep.”

“And the bowl?”

“I’d have taken it if he hadn’t smashed it.”

She noted the facts for our reply.

But something about the question stayed with me.

Dennis had watched me carry a single old suitcase out of the condo and had assumed there could be nothing important inside.

Now that his company was under scrutiny, he imagined jewelry.