One entry noted Trevor arriving with Monica to discuss a new shipping vendor while Rebecca was still at the hospital.

“Would you give that to my attorney?” I asked.

“I’ll give her the whole notebook.”

Lena arranged to receive it and record how Loretta had kept it.

Nothing in its pages was a miracle revelation.

The entries were ordinary, imperfect notes.

But they provided a contemporaneous timeline that contradicted Monica’s sworn claim that I had introduced Northbridge during a company meeting.

Later I sat with Opal at the kitchen table, turning a cup of tea between my palms.