her to save him from consequences he helped create.
“He knew,” I whispered.
Eleanor’s expression softened.
“He knew Andrew would have to answer for his decisions.”
“Even if Andrew was pressured?”
“Pressure explains a decision,” she said.
“It does not erase it.”
Andrew lowered his eyes.
“I agree.”
“You agree now.”
“Yes.”
“That is different from agreeing when it mattered.”
“I know.”
Andrew had spent years avoiding painful truths by waiting for them to become someone else’s problem.
Eleanor gathered the papers into separate stacks.
“The prosecutor’s office has accepted
