And that is the moment his phone went off on the nightstand.

It was face up.

He had put it down face up because he had come into the room intending to be a man with nothing to hide, and it lit the way phones do, with a preview.

Both of us looked at it.

Chloe

i told them it was all me, i started it, exactly like we said. don’t say anything about before september. please just stick to it

I was closer.