Helena fought, of course. Helena always fought. But Walter's word meant something in that family, even if it hadn't for years, and the foundation's board had a fiduciary duty, and Priya's firm had the paperwork, and Devon had the settlement agreement, and I had copies of everything. The audit went forward. The loans were disclosed. The family holding company restructured the foundation out of the family control, and the foundation named an independent chair, a woman named Adaeze Okonkwo who had no interest in any of us and who read the meeting minutes like she was grading them.
I left the house the last week of October. I took two suitcases and the list and a plant that had somehow survived eleven years on a windowsill that was never really mine. Grant stood in the driveway. He did not he
