It’s that I’m a lawyer and I knew it wasn’t a case, and I dressed it up as one, for four months, to myself.”

Maren wrote to each of them in the September.

Six letters, posted the same day, each one different.

I have not read mine.

It is in a drawer.

Odile has not answered hers.

Teddy answered hers in the October, four lines.

Bea drove to Granite Bay instead.