I had let the people I married guard it instead, and they had been quietly bleeding it for years, and the only reason I found out at all was that some habit of the accountant I used to be had made me open a statement I was supposed to leave to Ian.

That habit saved my life.

I did not know it yet, sitting there with a question dying in the sudden cold.

But I would.

Chapter 5 — What the Evidence Would Show

I will not narrate what happened after I opened my briefcase and laid the printed statements on the table.