flash drive contained evidence of a massive cover-up. Thomas had used his influence and his inheritance to silence witnesses and pay off investigators. He hadn’t stepped in to save me out of pure altruism; he had stepped in to atone for a crime that he had committed.
I scrolled further down and found a series of letters Thomas had written to himself over the years, never sent. In them, he confessed to the crushing weight of his guilt. He wrote about how every time he looked at me, he saw