I did not know, in that moment, what the silence meant.

I knew only that a question about a time had frightened two people far more than the death of a child should have, and that my husband had tried to make the question go away, and that both of those facts were wrong in a way I could not yet name.

Chapter 4 — The Waiver

Luke reached inside his jacket and drew out a folded document, and laid it on the counter between us with the small, practiced motion of a man closing a deal.

It was a liability waiver and a non-disclosure agreement.

He had already signed his name to it.