The DA opened a full investigation.

And while an investigation ran, Agatha could not simply take my children on the strength of a lie, because the lie was now, officially, in question.

For the first time in six years, someone with power was looking at Agatha Shields instead of through me.

Chapter 10 — Not an Employee

The weeks that followed were quiet and strange, and I did not know how to live in them.

I kept waking before dawn. Six years of it had wired something into me, and my body did not understand that no one was going to punish me for sleeping.

I would wake at four-thirty, heart already going, and get up and look for work to do.