Chapter 18 — A Place Where Nobody Can Lock Her In

Six months later the trials ended.

My brother was sentenced for the assault, for the death he caused, for the theft and the destroyed evidence.

My mother was convicted of the false imprisonment, the refusal to summon help, the coercion, the tampering.

Rowena went down for staging the scene, the forgery, the destruction, the crooked handling of a body.

Calderon and the debt collector drew long federal sentences for the extortion, the conspiracy, the theft, the planned robbery.

None of it brought Odile back.

None of it ended Bryn’s nightmares.

Justice is not resurrection; I learned the exact limit of what it can and cannot do.

The company cleared me of selling anyone out, but cited me for bringing those credentials home at all, on Calderon’s crooked order.