JULIAN

I had been in the car for thirty-one minutes.

I know the specific time because I had been aware of the time in the particular and present way of a man who was sitting in a parked car outside a building where a woman he, where Lena was inside, who had the specific and careful awareness of a man tracking time the way you track time when you are waiting for something and do not know what form the something is going to take.

Thirty-one minutes.

I had the Hargrove documents on my laptop.

I had not read them.

I had been looking at the building.

The specific and...