To the very end he believed himself the wronged one, the brother stolen from, the son a scheming sister had turned against his own father.

I do not think he was performing that belief.

I think he actually held it.

And that, more than the theft or even the blow in the church, is the thing I finally understood I could not fix, and was never meant to.

Chapter 16 — After

Three months later, Leon pleaded guilty.