After he left, I carried the notebook into the hall.

Frank was waiting beside the vending machine.

“I can’t tell whether I’m reading too much into him.”

“Read me what bothered you.”

I listed the focus on abandonment, the statement about shade, and the repeated claim that Mara feared losing custody.

“He could know those things legitimately,” Frank said.

“The shade detail wasn’t in our public statement.”

“That doesn’t mean nobody told him.