I wanted a face-to-face meeting with him.

I wanted to demand why he had gone near her, what he had done and whether Dominic had ordered it.

I told Celeste that.

“If you contact him,” she said, “you risk harming the case and frightening the person you claim to be helping.”

“You don’t know what it feels like to sit still.”

“I know what it looks like when a client confuses restraint with weakness.

It is not weakness.”