“I’ll show you,” he said.

Chapter 8 — Eight Hundred Photos

“I took over eight hundred photos on this trip,” Liam said, scrolling through the playback on the little screen.

“It’s for my school photography project.

I’ve been practicing with the zoom lens, learning how to catch things far away without people noticing.”

And as he scrolled, he narrated, in the flat, factual voice of a child reporting exactly what he saw.

“I caught Aunt Gwen slipping Dad’s hundred-dollar bills into her beach bag while he was out swimming.