The money my father hid to keep it from a murderer became, in the end, a shelter for women running from their own.

I think he would have liked that.

I think it is the only part of the fortune that ever truly felt like an inheritance, rather than a thing I had survived.

Parker Capital kept growing.

Olivia became my director of investigations.

Sebastian went back part-time to medicine.

Nathan stepped down from the family business and cooperated with the prosecutors, and he never called me again — and I think, in the end, he finally understood that some apologies are not meant to win a person back.

Sometimes an apology is just a man learning to accept that he lost you.