A former junior accountant came forward to testify that Flynn had personally ordered him to alter digital entry memos.

A former executive assistant remembered, and was willing to say, that Arthur Vance had met with criminal defense attorneys days before Mabel’s name was ever spoken in public.

Each new voice made the next one easier.

The truth that had seemed, four years ago, utterly impossible to prove against a family that owned the county, broke open now like a dam that has finally taken on more than it can hold.

Chapter 15 — Learning to Be a Father

While the legal machinery ground the Vances down, Damian gave his real attention to a far more delicate and important task, the one that mattered more to him than any verdict: learning how to be Lily’s father.