I Changed the Locks—Minutes Later My Son Arrived With a Crowbar, and Everything Shifted

from the living room, something in me either broke or was finally fixed. For the first time in two years, I saw everything with absolute clarity.

This wasn’t life. This was survival. And I hadn’t survived so much just to end up a ghost in my own home.

The next day, I went to see Elias Vance.

Now, three months later, the plan was unfolding exactly as we’d continue reading …