Every Time My Daughter Came Home Unresponsive, My Husband Told Me Not to Worry. The Recording in Her Backpack Revealed Why.

I was doing consulting work.

I didn’t know what Delia was really doing.”

“You told Spencer to make sure he didn’t leave any marks.”

He went quiet.

“I have the recording, Carter.

I’ve listened to it fifty times.”

“She was never in danger,” he said, finally, and I heard something new in his voice, a kind of weary honesty.

“Delia was a doctor.