Reached for the black desk phone.
Her fingers were too short.
Adeline stretched until one sneaker left the seat.
The receiver slipped from its cradle and hit the desk.
She caught it against her chest.
There were six buttons beneath Vincent’s private line.
One was red.
Three weeks earlier, her mother had pointed to the same kind of button in the staff kitchen.
“If somebody is very hurt and Mama isn’t there, you press this one.”
Adeline had asked why.