“No,” I said, turning in his arms to look up at him.

“I don’t feel guilty.

Not at all.

I spent twenty-eight years trying to save a family that viewed me as disposable.

And I want to be very clear with myself about what happened, because I know how they will tell it.

They will say I destroyed them.

But I didn’t destroy them, Julian.

They built a house out of cards and corruption.