Chapter 31: The Rear Door

"You turned around." Callum had been squaring the evidence bag against the edge of the folding table. His hands stopped. "Yes." "At the bar, when she named the pin. You turned to ask me." "I stopped." "After you turned." Sau-lin kept both hands flat on the table. The jade sat in her hair where it had sat all night, weighing nothing, and he had very nearly sold it. "I would have said yes." He did not argue. He went quiet and measuring, the way he went over a ceiling that had held longer than it should have. "It's your anchor," he said. "Give it to Vivian and you could have gone out like a match, and I'd have gone with you." "Yes." "For a recording of my brother's last hour." "For his voice. I led him into that alley." She could say it now without the room tilting. "I would…