The justice is for the record.

The healing is for the person.

And the person is the only thing that ever actually mattered.

Chapter 18 — The Delivery Driver

Six months later, something happened that felt written by a cosmic sense of humor.

It was a quiet Sunday, Gaby out with Leo, and I ordered a pizza to the house, and forty minutes later the doorbell rang, and I opened it to find a delivery driver in a faded red cap and a heavy thermal backpack — thinner than I remembered, stripped of the designer suit and the gold watch and the arrogance.

It was Derek.