That is the part that took me apart when I heard it.

He talked himself out of it for two days.

He constructed an innocent explanation — that his father was researching for work, that the policies were something to do with the business, that people search strange things — and he sat with that explanation and made himself believe it, because the alternative was unbearable and because he was fourteen.

What ended it was the practice signatures.

He found that photograph on the Wednesday night, in a subfolder, and there is no innocent explanation for a man practicing his wife’s name and Toby knew it instantly.