Chapter 7

ASHFORD DESIGNER PRESUMED DROWNED AFTER YACHT PARTY TRAGEDY. I read the headline in Paris, wrapped in a blanket in Madame Celeste's attic apartment. The Coast Guard searched for seventy-two hours. Callum Ashford refused to leave the water, the article said. Witnesses report he dove repeatedly until he was physically restrained. There was a photo. Callum on the dock at dawn. Soaked. Hollow-eyed. Staring at the sea. I closed the laptop. I didn't cry. Not until night, when I was alone. Then I cried...