Reading those two messages, I felt something in me go very quiet, and very clear, and very hard.

Chapter 10 — The Reckoning Begins

Deputy Grady did not make arrests on my lawn.

He did something better.

He separated everyone, took careful written statements from each of them, photographed the moving van and its contents, impounded the forged papers as evidence, and ordered Greg and Marlene to carry every last box, lamp, and cushion back out of my house.

They had the truck emptied and gone long before the sun went down.