Chapter 24 — Tell Me Your Name

When the arrest warrant was ready, Detective Hernandez did us one kindness: she allowed us to gather at my in-laws’ home, so that Santiago could be taken in quietly, among family, rather than dragged from his truck in a parking lot for the neighbors to film.

My aunt took Camila into a back bedroom with a pair of headphones and a tablet, so that whatever happened, my daughter would not have to hear it.

Santiago walked into that house still wearing the easy, measured calm he had worn as Sebastian for three years, still playing the part.