Chapter 58
SOPHIA
I had the photo printed at a shop across town, somewhere I'd never used before and had no reason to ever use again, paying in cash, giving a name that wasn't mine. The woman behind the counter didn't look twice at the image before she slid it into an envelope, just another photograph among however many she processed in a day, no idea what she was actually handing over.
I'd worked the crop carefully over several nights, pulling up the original on my laptop again and again, trimming away the rest of the barbecue crowd until only Nora and Leo remained, her hand resting on his arm in a way that had meant nothing at the time, his head tilted down toward her laughing at whatever joke had actually been floating around that whole group of people instead of just the two of them
