He could walk.

He was days from coming home to me on his own two feet.

And then, before he came home, he found the thing that changed his life into a fifteen-year performance.

Buried in the wreck records and a trail of money, he found evidence that our father’s brakes had been deliberately tampered with — and financial transfers that tied the sabotage to a man named Harlan Merrick.

“If I’d come home walking and asking questions,” Rhys said, “I’d have been the next accident.