“So I have to be sure you want it for the right reason.
Not for revenge.
Revenge is expensive and it doesn’t heal anything.
But accountability — daylight, on the record, so that these people can never again pretend it didn’t happen and never do it to anyone else — that’s worth the cost.
If that’s what you want, I’m your lawyer, and we will bury them in their own paperwork.”
“It’s not revenge,” Odette said, and found as she said it that it was true.
“I spent six years being told to keep quiet so the neighbors wouldn’t see.
I’m done keeping quiet.
I don’t want to hurt them.
I want it to be true, out loud, where they can’t rewrite it.” She thought of Rhys, out on his bridge in the dark, being robbed the same as she was and not yet knowing.