The filing described his wife’s wrist injury in careful language and called it self inflicted, sustained, it said, while the mother was wrapping her own wrist in gauze in a state of agitation.

Darius stood in his kitchen holding the page, and the room went very quiet around him.

He had told no living soul about the gauze.

Not Camille. Not Renata. Not his mother, who had given her account of that evening without once mentioning a bandage.

The only two people in the world who knew that Nia had wrapped her wrist in gauze that evening were Nia, and the person who had stood somewhere and watched her do it.

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