I couldn’t move it alone, Corbin.

And after a while, I couldn’t stay.” Corbin felt anger move through him, cold and clarifying.

His father’s company had not merely failed to prevent a tragedy.

It had been warned, twice — once by the man who died, and once by the vice president who tried to stop the work — and it had silenced them both, one with a delayed equipment order and one with a resignation, and it had gone on, and it had prospered, and it had paid Corbin’s whole comfortable life out of the proceeds.

Chapter 13 — The Foundation