It was simply the bill, arriving, as bills eventually do, for a man who had spent years certain his would never come.

They led him out.

I did not have to say anything else.

Mason was taken for questioning and indicted soon after.

Charlotte was not arrested that night, but her devices and expense records were seized.

Bridget was summoned to answer for property destruction and for wire transfers tied to her own accounts.

The four of them who had laughed while they filled trash bags with my life were, within a single hour, each facing the machinery of the law.

Chapter 20 — Sabrina Miller Vance