“You were given every opportunity, and you burned them down out of envy.” Grady lunged for the door; the agents were already there.
They were arrested for fraud, money laundering, extortion, and conspiracy.
My father didn’t celebrate.
He sat in silence while my mother held his hand, because the law could deliver justice but it could never give him back a brother.
Chapter 16 — A Woman Who Got Her Life Back
Marshall had vanished from view by then, and I learned why: days before the arrests, he had tried to retrieve a backup drive of the original evidence, and Randall’s people had ambushed him in a parking garage to take it back.
He managed to mail the files to my office first.
The ambush put him in intensive care.
I stood outside the glass of his ICU room and looked at the man who had betrayed me completely, and then risked his life to help stop the people who nearly destroyed my family.
When he woke and squeezed my hand, he asked the only question he had left.