Not that my mother was innocent — she wasn’t, entirely.
But that she had loved me, and warned me, and that I had turned out to be exactly the daughter she’d hoped for: the one who refused to inherit the hate.
Chapter 26 — What the Files Proved
The files proved my mother had not been the villain of Braddock’s story, and that Braddock had not been its victim.
He had personally taken cash to sign off on contaminated shipments — the very shipments that killed his own son.
My mother had eventually turned her evidence over to a regional inspector, doing the brave thing at last, only for that inspector to be paid off by the industry to bury the whole case.