"Where were you last night?"
That was how Daniel opened. No good morning, no how is Eli, no I got your photo and I've been thinking about you both. Just that, direct and clipped, with an edge underneath it that I didn't recognize immediately because Daniel didn't usually have edges.
I stood in the corridor outside Luca's office and kept my voice easy.
"I told you," I said. "Work dinner. Then I went to check on Eli and fell asleep in the chair."
"You fell asleep at the hospital."
"Yes."
"And you couldn't have come home after?"
I looked at the wall in front of me. "It was late Daniel. He needed me close."
A pause. The kind that had something sitting inside it.
"I called you four times after midnight," he said.
"My phone was on silent."
"Mia." He said my name the way people say a n
