Desmond watched his relatives’ faces change one by one as the evidence did its patient work, and he understood that this was the exact thing that had been available to him four years ago, the whole time — that Everett had tried to bring him precisely this, and he had refused to receive it, because back then he had wanted the lie.

The only difference between the man who threw his wife out and the family now turning against Junia was that the family was willing to look at the evidence.

That was all it had ever taken.

Looking.

And it had taken Desmond four years and a child on a dictionary to be willing to do it.

Chapter 22 — Your Reputation