POV: Olivia

The police had come. Statements had been given. Sofia had been formally arrested and processed, Richard alongside her, both of them entering a system that would now move at its own pace regardless of what any of us wanted or felt about it. Dr. Pearl had been on the phone until past midnight coordinating the legal dimensions of what the kidnapping added to the existing case, and it added considerably, she told us, her voice carrying the particular controlled satisfaction of a lawyer who has watched the evidence reach critical mass. Kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, conspiracy, the charges accumulated with a weight and a permanence that no amount of...