She had simply been made to carry that private knowledge alone, against a powerful institution’s public lie, for four years.

Corbin understood that a spoken apology, from him, would be an insult next to the weight of that.

“We are going to make sure,” he said instead, “that every single person knows the truth about what he did.”

Chapter 16 — Facing It

Corbin had a clear legal path to protect himself, and his corporate attorneys reminded him of it repeatedly.

He had not managed the Bayview project.