Maya did not repair our relationship through any effort of her own.

She simply made the thing we had been protecting look as worthless as it had always been, and once we could see that, there was nothing left to keep us apart.

Chapter 13 — What Do You Need Me to Do

There was a silence, and then my brother’s voice changed again, and this time it changed into something I had once known very well and had not heard in nine years: the sound of Arthur Vance deciding to solve a problem.

Not the cold boardroom version I had walked away from, but something older and better underneath it, the sound of my brother turning the full force of his considerable mind toward a thing that mattered.