By hour three, the boardroom had stopped being about the truth and started being about money, which was, Maya thought, exactly how these things always ended.
"I want to be careful with the word restitution," one of the outside litigators said, for the second time. "It implies an established liability. What we're discussing is a negotiated framework."
"It implies you owe her something," Sophia said.
"Ms. Vance, with respect—"
"With respect, I've been in this room since eleven o'clock and I've heard the phrase negotiated framework nine times and the word sorry once." Sophia hadn't raised her voice. "My father said the word once, and every person in this room has spent three hours trying to make it not count."
Maya's own attorney — a small unhurried woman named Priya Nandan who had been
