Chapter 40: On the Record

By the time Mia's meeting ended, ninety careful, exhausting minutes later, Nate had already been sitting in the hallway outside 4B for forty of them, having been summoned himself at 9:15 with no warning that Mia had gone in ahead of him, and no ability to do anything but wait, jaw clenched, for the door to open. She came out pale, composed in the specific brittle way of someone holding herself to...