Celeste — Meridian Company, Same Night
The call comes at eleven thirty.
She is in her office when it comes.
Not her apartment. Her office. Because Celeste Voss does not go home when things are falling apart. She goes to her office and she sits behind her desk and she manages.
She has always managed.
The call is from her lawyer.
He says: Hurst has been contacted by a detective named Morrison.
She says: when.
He says: this evening.
She says: and.
He says: and Hurst is considering his options.
Celeste is very still.
Considering his options means Hurst is thinking about talking.
Hurst talking means everything she has built since September starts coming apart at the specific carefully constructed seams she has spent fourteen months maintaining.
She says: handle it.
He says: Celes
