The Light I Turned On
Just wait. Warner’s name at the top.
The room went silent the way a room goes silent when the audio is cut from the world.
I advanced the slide.
Date-stamped photographs — Warner and Renae, his hand at the small of her back, walking into a hotel I had never entered; the timestamp beneath.
Another: the two of them leaving another hotel weeks later.
Another slide: the ledger, the dinners and the jewelry and the weekend bookings.