Everything I did after that, I could do because of that call.

A mother who knows her child is safe is capable of things a terrified one is not.

Dax had built his entire plan on the belief that he held the one card I could never fold on, and in the space of one phone call, without his knowing it, that card had been taken quietly out of his hand.

They drove him straight to the station, to a warm room and a blanket and a female officer who did not leave his side.

He was never at the docks.