Home Entertainment Game Technology Six months after a bullet left me paralyzed, my fiancée secretly ordered the staff to stop my afternoon therapy because she believed helping me was pointless, but the exhausted aide earning twenty-five dollars an hour refused to treat me like a lost cause. I had spent my life surrounded by men terrified of my name, yet it took one brutally honest woman washing my back to make me realize the person wearing my engagement ring had already abandoned me.352

I had no defense.

She continued.

“I took the assignment because I wanted proof. I thought I'd get inside your office. Copy something. Find something that showed you knew exactly what happened.”

“Did you?”

“Yes.”

My chest tightened.

She touched the pages.

“These.”

I looked at my signature.

“You're going to the prosecutor.”

“I already gave Lucia copies.”

I stared at her.

“When?”

“Before Dominic was arrested.”

A strange laugh escaped me.

“So Lucia knows?”

“Yes.”

“And she's been waiting for you to tell me.”

“Yes.”

I looked toward the parallel bars across the room.

Months ago, betrayal would have detonated in me.

I would have fired people.

Threatened people.

Destroyed whatever frightened me before it could expose weakness.

Now I simply asked, “Why did you stay?”

Tessa wiped her face.

“Because you weren't the man I expected.”

“Maybe I was worse.”

“No.”

“You just showed me a document that proves my negligence put your sister under concrete.”