Nothing cancels them.

But it sat beside them, at last, and made the arithmetic of that day a little more bearable than it had been in three years of carrying only the debit side.

Chapter 15 — You Saved His Boy

Nia squeezed my hand and looked up, from the captain to me.

“Daddy — you saved his boy?”

I swallowed hard, and I knelt down despite the sharp ache where my leg ends, and pulled my daughter against my chest.