I looked out the window afterward and realized that the real victory had never been destroying a single predator but changing the environment that allowed him to thrive.
The world would never be free of people like Victor Langley, yet once enough people learn to recognize the patterns of abuse and speak together the word untouchable loses its power.
That quiet shift in awareness was the kind of ending I could live with because it meant the silence that protected predators had finally begun to break.
