It was only the motive.

Chapter 11 — He’s Good

Later that morning, Luca came back — to the ICU waiting room this time, and I was ready for him, because Detective Vance was listening from the observation room next door, and because I had spent the intervening hours turning myself into something I could hold steady in front of him.

It was, I will give him this, a masterpiece.

The camel-hair coat unbuttoned just so.