I did not raise my voice.

I did not stay to watch.

I turned my back on the ruin they had built with their own hands, and I walked, unhurried, toward the exit and the ocean beyond it.

Chapter 16 — A Clear Golden Morning

The investigation took eleven months to run its course.

Damon and Everett were made to liquidate corporate assets to repay the money they had diverted, along with civil penalties heavy enough to end the firm they had been trying so hard to save.

Sloane’s relationship with Damon did not survive the proceedings or the ruin; she went home to her parents before her son was born.