He is not in any jeopardy at all and he never was.”

And I started crying, properly, in a stranger’s kitchen, in pyjamas.

And Abascal, who is a kind man, waited, and then said the other half of it.

“The clerk is in a very great deal of jeopardy.

And your son is the only person who can say what actually happened at that counter.”

Part Twenty-Seven: What My Son Did Not Know

Julian did not know any of it.