They’re going to ruin my life!” Sam did not offer him a chair.

“Save it for your defense attorney.” And I, sitting in the corner, thinking of my daughter with dirty coins clenched in her hand, said only one thing.

“My daughter had a life too, Mason.

And when you were forging her name, you did not spare it a single thought.” He lowered his head in shame, and I felt, looking at him, not one flicker of sympathy, and I did not try to summon any.

Some men earn the consequences that find them.