Felony assault.

Treat it like what it is.” Vivienne called thirty-eight times that evening, and Desmond had me let every one go to voicemail, and the voicemails were their own kind of confession — the rage first (you made a fool of me in front of everyone), then the tears (you can’t do this after everything we shared), then the venom (your daughter has wanted us apart from day one), and at last the panic: Don’t show those files to anyone.

They’re private property. Desmond almost smiled at that one.

“There it is,” he said.