Damon had planned the perfect disappearance of the one piece of evidence he understood, and never grasped that he was leaving a second, colder trail everywhere he went — a trail he could not cremate, could not bribe, could not talk his way past, because it was not held by any person he could reach.

He killed my daughter in the dark, where he thought no one was watching.

He financed it in the daylight, in a system that never stops writing everything down.

Chapter 10 — The Confession

Faced with the coroner’s findings and the paper trail, Damon’s expensive lawyers gave up the fight they had been hired to make.

He confessed to all of it, to take the death penalty off the table.

He had planned it.