She did not reply and she was advised not to and her lawyer wrote to my lawyer about it.

The only thing I ever wanted from Brenna Kowalczyk was an answer to one question, which is whether she ever, at any point in thirty-seven months, wondered why a construction company with nineteen employees was paying her four thousand dollars a month.

I am never going to get it.

Part Twenty-One: The Dispositions

There was one trial and it lasted eleven days and it was Claudia’s.

Everybody else pleaded, which is what happens, and which disappoints people, and which I want to explain once before I list the outcomes.