Why don’t you show Mr.

Calloway the drawing you made?”

Sophie retrieved a folder covered in gold stars.

Inside were pictures of bridges, birds, and a man in a yellow safety vest holding her mother’s hand.

“That’s Daddy,” she explained.

“Mom said he checked buildings so people wouldn’t get hurt.”

The statement struck Vincent harder than June’s accusation.

Thomas Bell had walked into one of his buildings to make it safer.

He had never walked out.

“I don’t want Sophie involved in an argument,” June said.

“May, would you take her into the living room?”

Once they were alone, June opened the drawer beside her chair and took out a thin envelope.

She laid it on the table but kept one hand over it.

“After Tommy died, a man came to our house.