Somewhere, real hospitals got less than they’d paid for so that Larissa could glitter.

That was the thing I could not forgive and would not leave alone.

It was not only my two years he had stolen, or my inheritance.

It was my father’s whole life’s meaning, the promise at the center of the thing he built, and I was going to take it back and make it true again if it was the last thing I did.

It nearly was.