There is a justice in that so complete that I still, some days, can hardly believe it.

The man who threw his son off a mountain to steal a fortune will spend the rest of his life in a cell, while that son grows up secure on the very money his father died reaching for.

Brandon did not merely fail to get the fifty million dollars.

He handed it, permanently, to the child he tried to kill.

I have thought about the shape of that outcome more than is probably healthy, because it has a symmetry so exact that it almost frightens me.

Brandon’s entire crime was an act of subtraction.