Penelope pov

"We brought justice," I correct. "You kept the evidence safe all these years, you never gave up."

"I couldn't," Mom says, starting the engine. "Not when I knew he was innocent. Not when I saw what it did to him, to you, to our family."

"How is Dad?" I ask. "With the news?"

"Relieved," Mom says. "Vindicated. But also angry. All those years he'll never get back, all the pain we suffered. That doesn't just go away because some Council says he was innocent."

"No," I agree. "It ...