Because you used your wife’s Social Security number across state lines to secure those loans — the FBI has taken over the case.”

Chapter 28 — Courtroom 4B

Three months later, the doors of Courtroom 4B closed on all of us.

I sat at the plaintiff’s table in a tailored navy suit, posture straight, wrist fully healed now except for a faint ache when it rained.

Across the aisle, Ian and Regan looked hollowed out.

His suits hung loose on a shrinking frame; his eyes would not meet mine.