I pulled the box out into the yellow light of the closet.

It was a turquoise velvet Tiffany & Co. box tied with a white satin ribbon.

I opened the hinged lid.

Inside was a three-strand pearl necklace joined by a platinum and diamond pendant that caught the overhead light.

Folded under the black velvet display pad was a store receipt printed on thin blue thermal paper.

The receipt showed a purchase on December twenty-second at four fifteen in the afternoon from the Tiffany & Co. flagship store on Fifth Avenue.

The total was forty-one thousand two hundred dollars, charged directly to Cole’s personal line of credit.