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“Okay,” I said, not understanding where he was going with this

“My grandmother sued for the o to college or start a business or whatever I wanted when I turned twenty-one and got control of the trust the et my shoes and socks for me

“After randmother died, I went to see my mother I was so pissed that she hadn’t believed me…that she’d defended my father even after I’d told her the truth about what had happened Knowing she helped him escape…”

I nodded in understanding “I get it,” I said softly

“She told me I’d never understand and tried to convince me I was confused about that day ThatI’d said She said that one day I’d see and we’d be a faain I knew…” His voice dropped off for a moment “I knew at that point that she was still in touch with him Don’t ask s would play out”

“What did you do?” I asked

“I started following her in the hope she would lead me to him But she never left town, didn’t sell the house I started to think , but then I met someone who told me I wasn’t”

“Ronan,” I said softly

“Guys like roup On the five-year anniversary of the anization She spent the entire ti my father despite all the evidence to prove he’d been the attacker My father was tried in absentia,” Cain said

I nodded in understanding “That means they have a trial whether the defendant is there or not, right?”

“Right,” he said quietly “He was convicted so if they ever find hied with aiding and abetting, but the prosecutor ended up dropping the charges when he decided he didn’t have enough evidence”

“So how did Ronan get involved?”

“He saw the interviewinto the case When he sawfor proof she knehere my father was, he reached out to me and made me an offer”

“A job in exchange for helping find your father?” I guessed