Amber had enjoyed every dollar.

And now Amber was handing me, through the prosecutors, the ledger that would put all three of them away, still insisting she was only a dutiful wife.

Chapter 14 — Survival Mode

The justice system does not move the way it moves in films.

There was no single dramatic courtroom afternoon where everything resolved.

There were months of it — forensic audits, depositions, grand jury hearings, the slow, grinding, unglamorous machinery of the law doing its work.

And during those months, while the case ground forward without much need of me, I turned my attention to the harder and more important work of healing.