Brielle was moving into a two-bedroom apartment in Fort Lee, paid for under a private support agreement filed in New Jersey family court.

I deleted the press release link Nora had attached to the text without opening it.

By a quarter to seven, the evening light had turned gold across the living room of the coastal cottage.

A framed photograph of the Pacific horizon stood on the low wooden shelf next to three rolled blueprints.

I put the black leather case holding Dr.

Vance’s duplicate lab records inside the pine cabinet.