You cannot make it cry, or plead, or claim it was only trying to help.

It simply says what is true, and lets the true thing stand.

I had spent my whole career trusting that quality of numbers, their refusal to perform, and it had never meant more to me than it did in that courtroom, watching the ledgers say, flatly and without mercy, the thing my husband would never say himself.

Chapter 15 — The Same Choice

Christopher called me one last time as a husband, on a video call, his face gray.