The margin between the life Teresa nearly lost and the justice she eventually got was a single rescheduled flight.

I do not find that comforting.

I find it a permanent reminder of how thin the protection is, for people like Teresa, and how much of it comes down to whether someone with power happens to look at the right moment.

Chapter 10 — Not About a Bracelet

I crouched down so that I was level with Teresa, and I asked her, as gently as I could manage with Vanessa standing a few feet away, to tell me what was really going on.

And what she said rearranged everything.