What I threatened.

All of it, including the part about the police, in my own words, without softening any of it, which took about six minutes.

And when I got to the end Odile said: “Why didn’t you tell me.”

“In 2013 you were fourteen.”

“Why didn’t you tell me in 2019.

Why didn’t you tell me in 2022.

Why didn’t you tell me in November when I sat at your kitchen table and told you I’d pulled the case.” Her voice had not gone up at all.

“Dad, why didn’t you tell me on Wednesday, in the storage unit, when I showed you a box with a poster in it.”