“You’ve handed me six pages of evidence about your niece’s injury with one paragraph at the end about your own innocence, and the paragraph at the end is the only one that isn’t sourced, and it’s the only one you read out twice.”

I said I had not read it twice.

And she said, “You did.”

I checked, afterward, against my own memory, for about a week, and I could not resolve it, which is its own answer.

Part Sixteen: What the Detective Said

Detective Sal Bonaventura called me on the second of March and asked me to come in, and Rosalind Vey came with me, and I assumed I was in trouble.

I was not in trouble.