You are confirming one you spent weeks installing.

It is patient, and it is cruel, and it works on the reputations of the honest precisely because the honest do not see it coming and would never think to do it themselves.

Chapter 18 — The Paper She Made Her Sign

“There’s something else, Mr.

David,” Teresa said, and I could see it cost her to say it.

“She made me sign a paper.

Today, before you came.