I stood there with my hand still open where the purse had been.

That folder was the same weight and finish as the due diligence folders we kept in the twelfth-floor vault.

I had carried boxes of them to the copier for Gavin at eleven at night.

The nurse asked for the woman’s name.

I didn’t have it.

By nine-fifteen, I was back in the Buick with the heater running and my phone face up on the passenger seat.

Gavin’s messages had piled up like weather.