There’s your own daughter’s testimony, and your wife’s signature, and forty pages of documents, and a recording of you threatening a witness.” I paused.

“And there’s one more thing you should know before you take another step toward me.” I reached down and picked up my phone again, and tapped the screen, and it lit up to show a call that had been connected, and muted, for the last twenty minutes.

Chapter 13 — Detective Delgado

“Detective Delgado,” I said clearly into the phone.

“Did you get all of that?”

A crisp, level voice came through the speaker, filling the living room.