Evelyn's POV
Benjamin did not move for a long time after the recording ended.
The device sat on the coffee table. The room around us was still in the way rooms get when something large has just landed inside them and everyone is waiting to understand how much space it is going to take up.
Moses was the first to speak. "Play it again," he said.
Emmanuel picked up the device and pressed play from the beginning.
We all listened again. Sandra's voice was dry and tired and very clear. She described Sylvanus arriving at the hospital. She described the money. She described the baby being wrapped in a yellow blanket the same color as the one in the photograph on Aunt Mirabel's piano shelf.
Then she said the second name.
It was a woman. Someone Sandra called "the woman in the corridor." Some
