She sat down on the kitchen floor, right where she’d been sitting the day before when she’d first told me the truth, and she covered her face with both hands and cried without making a sound.
I sat down beside her on the floor.
We stayed there for a long time.
Daniel was at the station for six hours.
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His lawyer arrived within forty minutes.
Patricia called me at noon to say they were still in questioning and that Reyes had everything — the photograph, the note, Marcus’s written record, and Ava’s full formal statement, which she had given that morning before Reyes arrived.
I sat at the kitchen table and drank tea and waited.
At two in the afternoon, Patricia called again.
“He’s talking,” she said.
“What does that mean?”
“It means his lawyer advised him that the evidence is substantial and that cooperation may affect the outcome.
