# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Thirty-Eight — What Mia Tells Nathan
She told him on a Tuesday evening in June.
Not the case things — she had been telling him those continuously, every step, as it happened. This was something different. She had been carrying it since April and had been waiting for the moment when carrying it was less correct than saying it.
She came home from school, put her bag down, poured two glasses of water, and sat across from him at the kitchen table.
He looked at her face and waited.
She said: "I need to tell you something that isn't about the case."
"Tell me," he said.
She thought about how to put it. She had been a person who managed her words for most of her adult life — choosing them carefully, arranging them so they couldn't be used against
