So Corbin sat in the gallery, several rows back, and let the truth stand as it actually was: that he had not saved this family.

This family had, against enormous odds, saved itself, and had merely needed one person on the other side to finally stop pushing back.

The regulatory board officially corrected Nathan Prescott’s employment file, commending his effort to halt unsafe work, and awarded Lianna substantial financial compensation along with lifetime educational support for Austin.

When the decision was read aloud, Lianna did not cheer.

She simply opened her blue envelope, and drew out a photograph of Nathan smiling with his arm around her, and touched the printed image gently.