a tablet, set it on the table, and tapped

gray uniform stood at the black door, and I watched myself

swiped. "This is the camera ou

opped it open with a folded cardboard box. He looked around, his face half in shadow. Ev

" I whi

wiped the hall camera from 2:40 to 3:20. The only footage that survived is you goi

at I had told him my brother's name. But the words stuck. I could see exactly h

orm pocket and put the

it as I did it. But my mother raised me

now where it came from. I came here to find him. I s

e envelope for a lo

aid slowly. "A small price fo

know what i

n't kno

w my b

the tablet. "Here is what happens now. You have four weeks. If your brother walks through that door by the en

ll ki

re I can see you. Rafe will take you to my house in Chestnut Hill. You'll work.

ep me. I have a jo

And you have me, which at the mom

nt over. I was shaking. "Last n

ime, he flinche

was the only honest thing in my life in a year. It's why this is so

if he had been standing there all al

pened on the lobby, and then, without looking at me, in that gravel vo

the black window of the car that waited at the curb

wo million dollars, and prove that one of the most dang

other people's messes, and by the time the car pulled out into tra