At home, Izabel told them that he confessed. Jana cried. Cami rubbed Jana’s back and told her it was okay. Kaito scooped up Cami in his arms and squeezed her until she complained about it. Izabel held Jana and then Cami squeezed herself in between them until she had Izabel to herself.

“I have to lie down,” Izabel said.

“I’ll come with you, Mommy,” Cami said.

So Izabel went to sleep in her own bed and Cami lay down beside her for a few seconds. Then she started to climb all over the bed. She settled near Izabel’s feet and pulled on each of Izabel’s toes. But Izabel was so tired, she didn’t care, didn’t react, and eventually Cami left the room.

Kaito woke Izabel and asked her if she wanted dinner or wanted to sleep more.

“I want to eat,” she said.

He sat down on the bed.

“I didn’t tell you everything,” she said.

“You haven’t told me anything yet.”

“I don’t mean about interrogating him. Afterwards, Paz offered me a job. She said I could be her shadow.”

“Wow,” Kaito said. “Do you like working with her?”

“I do.”

“Then I think that’s amazing,” Kaito said.

That surprised her. She said, “I thought you wouldn’t like it. I thought you’d think it was too dangerous.”

“I think you’ve been looking for something you like for a long time,” he said. “I’m glad you found it.”

That was true. Her life had been interrupted over and over by things she couldn’t control. Sometimes she felt like she only fell into her life with Kaito, fell backward into it. And she’d wondered what her life would have looked like, if she’d always been moving forward, toward one desire or another, never stopping and never stopped.

“We’d have to move to the capital,” she said.

“I can do that,” he said.

“She said we’d have to move anyway for the trial.”

“Then that works,” he said. He smiled.

“I think I’m really happy about this,” she said.

The four of them sat around their dining table. The late sun was coming in bright, casting a rectangle of light on the floor.

“I’ve been offered a position as a shadow,” Izabel said.

“With who?” Jana asked.

“Inspector Paz.”

“I like her,” Cami said.

“If I take it, it means we have to move to the capital.”

“No!” Cami said. “We just got home!”

“I know,” Izabel said.

“You want to take it?” Jana asked.

“Yes.”

“And I want to go, too,” Kaito said.

“Why?” Cami said, upset.

Izabel pulled her onto her lap. “It would make us happy. It’s important for people to be happy.”

“I’m happy here.”

“I know.”

“You’re happy here,” Cami told her.

“I am, but I would be more happy there.”

“You didn’t say people needed to be more happy.”