We sat in that hallway until almost two.

Chapter 12 — Leverage

Four days later Sophie asked to watch the whole thing.

Neither of us had played it since the week it happened. It lives on a secure drive Bennett gave me and a copy in a safe deposit box, and I have never once opened either, and I could recite the transcript from memory, which is not the same as watching your husband’s face.

We did it in the afternoon, in the kitchen, in daylight, which Ruthanne had told me to do years ago about a different thing.

Daniel looked so young.

That’s what got me first. He was thirty-eight in that garage and I am forty-nine now, and he has stopped being a man older than my children and become a frightened young father, and I have not adjusted to that and I don’t expect to.