I only put my phone in my pocket.

But looking back, that was the decision, made by my hands before my mind had caught up, and everything else followed from it.

I sat down in the chair across from her that first afternoon already knowing, somewhere beneath the part of me that was still pretending this was a job, that I was in serious trouble, and that the trouble was going to be the best thing that ever happened to me.

Chapter 5 — The Names She Called Me