Vindication

~Raina~

Gideon called at nine fourteen on a Tuesday morning.

I was at my desk reviewing the Brooklyn shipyard contract amendments when my phone lit up with his name. I answered on the second ring.

"It's done," he said.

Two words. That was all.

I set my pen down.

"Define done," I said.

"The state attorney general's office filed the formal dismissal of all charges at nine AM this morning," Gideon sa