“Why did you help me?”

His face changed.

“Because Cyrus Blackwood destroyed my family too.” Years earlier, he told me, his wife had lost a pregnancy after being attacked during what was dressed up as a business dispute.

The case never reached a courtroom, but in the years since, payments connected to it had been traced back, quietly, to shell companies that led to Blackwood.

“I’ve been tracking him for years,” Sebastian said.