Jamie glanced behind her. The other women had moved to the back of the cell, no doubt due to the presence of cops they wanted nothing to do with. Jamie lowered her voice. “I... She... She didn’t know I was there, and I was afraid she’d be mad if she knew I saw her. Willie had asked for a few minutes alone, so I went into my office and sat in the dark, keeping an eye on him as best I could. She came in, shut the door and locked it. Then she walked up to Willie and smacked him across the face so hard it snapped his head back. I was so mad! How could she do that? Like he wasn’t upset enough already. The poor guy. He started to cry, and he was apologizing, but she kept screaming at him.”

“What did she say?”

“Stuff like ‘Do you have any idea what you’ve done?’ and ‘How in the world did you miss that ball?’ and ‘You’ve ruined everything. Everything!’”

Sam wanted to scream herself when she thought about how much time Jamie could’ve saved them if she’d told them this the first time they met her. “Did he say anything?”

“No,” Jamie said, shaking her head. Her chin quivered and her eyes filled. “He just kept crying and apologizing to her. I wanted to go out there and tell him to stop, that she didn’t deserve his apologies. She was so awful to him. I didn’t tell you because I was afraid of what she might do to me if she found out I was there.”

“Has she ever threatened you or anyone you know before?”

“Not directly, but the players called her all kinds of names like Ice Bitch and Queen Frigid. That kind of stuff. No one likes her, but everyone loves Ray. People couldn’t understand what he ever saw in her.”

“This has been very helpful,” Sam said. “I’ll need you to make an official statement about the encounter between Elle and Willie in the morning.”

“Please,” Jamie said, “you have to let me out of here.” She glanced over her shoulder at the women who were watching her closely. “I’m scared, and I’m sorry I lied to you and kicked Detective Gonzales. I shouldn’t have, but I was trying to protect Willie and his kids. They were everything to him. I didn’t want them to grow up hating him because of me.”

Sam wanted to tell her there’d been other women, besides her, but she figured Jamie would hear that soon enough. It didn’t need to come from her. She gestured to one of the guards. “Please move Ms. Clark to a private cell.”

“Why do I have to stay here?”