So I felt it, and I let it pass through me like a wave through a piling, and I stayed where I was.

It was the single hardest and most important thing I did all day — harder than the recording, harder than the reveal.

I felt the pull to save them, and for the first time in my life, I let it go.

Chapter 16 — The Ledger I Cleared

I walked over to my father and slipped my arm through his.

He was staring at nothing, hollowed out, a good and honest man who had just learned in one hour that his wife had never loved him and his son had robbed him.

“Come on, Dad,” I said.