It aims at the future, not the wound.

And it left me, at the end of it, clean, which revenge never does.

Chapter 17 — The Custody Decree

For Luca, the fallout was just as direct.

His firm, facing the pending matter and the public record of his enabling conduct, stripped him of his senior-partnership track and reassigned him to a low-tier compliance desk at a quiet branch office.

Deprived of his high income and facing mounting legal bills for his mother’s defense, he was forced to sell his sports car, surrender his claim on our marital assets, and move into a small apartment near the highway.