He had no idea he had just become the best witness for the prosecution I could have asked for.

Chapter 2 — The Quiet One

To understand that morning you have to understand the two of us, and the exact shapes we had been assigned in this family a very long time ago.

Leon was the charming son.

The loud one, the one who filled a doorway, the one who could borrow money from you and leave you feeling somehow that you’d been done a favor.

He called his borrowing ambition and everyone let him, because he said it with such warmth, such certainty, such a wide easy smile.