They have spent their whole lives watching the law arrive to protect their interests, to remove the inconvenient, to take their side, and it does not occur to them, even at the very end, that the uniformed men coming through the door might be coming for them.

She actually smiled.

She lifted her chin toward the man who had come to arrest her father and expose her crimes, and she felt relief.

“Chief,” she called.

“Thank God.

Arrest her.”