“I have done you the courtesy of calling you Walter. Can you not do me the same kindness and call me Jonathan?”

“You were Jehan to me, and then Jacques. How many other names have you had?”

“Eleven. How many have you had, Waltheri?”

“I don’t change my first name,” Walter said, stretching out his jaw from the last slap. “I actually like who I am.”

Jonathan chuckled, and the sound of his laughter made Walter shiver. He ...