I spent forty years in corporate law, Elliott.

I know exactly how people like Dulce slip the hook.”

Elliott looked at me the way you look at a stranger wearing a familiar face, because he had never seen this version of his father — the litigator, not the widower.

And I understood his confusion, because I had nearly forgotten the man myself.

But I was certain of what I was telling him, certain in my bones, because I had spent a career watching exactly this kind of case go exactly this wrong.

Evidence is not the same as proof, and proof is not the same as conviction.