She had never said any of it out loud before.

Somewhere in the middle of it she started shaking and could not stop, and Harrison got up and put a blanket around her shoulders and sat back down and did not say anything, and let her finish.

When she was done he sat looking at the counter for a while.

Then he made two phone calls, at eleven at night, and both were answered on the second ring.

The first was to a man named Desmond Ruiz, who had been a state investigator for nineteen years and now was not, and who did work for exactly six clients.