The first time I watched the footage, I almost told her to turn it off. Detective Hall paused the video on Luca’s hand reaching into the metal cabinet, the same one I’d walked past a hundred times without ever touching. The room around us felt suddenly airless, the fluorescent lights too bright, my own heartbeat too loud in my ears. When she pressed play and I watched him take that bottle toward the house, toward my leg, I realized I hadn’t been misremembering anything at all. I’d been misund… Continues…
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