And then she told me what the recording had caught Lars saying, in the kitchen, before he ever touched me — what he had said to his mother, low, when he thought no camera that mattered was listening.

Chapter 9 — Make It Look Like an Accident

“If she won’t sign, Mom, we’ll make it look like an accident.”

I sat with the phone against my ear for a long moment after Rhoswen read it to me.

Because that sentence changed the shape of everything.

It meant that what happened in my kitchen had not been a man losing his temper.