They simply both exist, and I have had to learn to hold them together, the wrong and the love, without letting go of either.

Chapter 21 — Ten Years

“Julian gave me the drive before he disappeared,” I said, when I could speak again.

“He knew Vale was closing in on him.

He could feel it.

And he made me promise two things.

He made me promise that I would protect our child, no matter what it took.

And he made me promise that I would keep the evidence safe, hidden, until the day it could finally be brought forward without the wrong people being able to make it disappear.”