Marshall Crane stepped between them and gestured toward the door.

“Corbin, nothing in these papers proves any personal liability on your part.

Leave this matter to the legal team.”

And that single sentence, more than anything else said in that room, made up Corbin’s mind completely.

Because he heard in it the whole reflex of his family across two generations — the reflex to reach, at the first sign of an uncomfortable human truth, not for responsibility but for the legal team, to convert every moral question into a liability question and then answer the liability question and call the matter closed.

Nothing proves personal liability.