I could not undo those choices by buying the prettiest nursery in Detroit.

The only thing I could give either of them now was a truthful, safer future, even if I was not invited into it.

PART 14

I first heard Hannah’s voice again in a recorded statement she authorized her attorney to share with my counsel.

I did not recognize it at once.

It was weaker, measured, and interrupted by pauses when she lost her train of thought.

Still, it was unmistakably hers.