“I’m not talking to you anymore,” Derek said.

“I want a lawyer.”

He hung up.

The call dropped with a sharp electronic beep, and the screen went dark in my hand.

Rebecca arrived at seven forty.

I knew it was her before she spoke, because the nurse pointed down the corridor and a woman in a navy blazer started toward me with the kind of stride that belongs to someone who has already decided how the conversation will end.

“Hannah?” she said.