He wouldn't have let them take her if the punishment had been worse. He would have spoken up. Said something. Something about how treason was, perhaps, an unforgiveable sin in a Suit but that her motive had been to provide a place of security for her sons and surely that merited some sort of clemency.

Even if it had meant he'd be side-eyed forevermore, at the least, for being the man who defended Laureline Novak.

"You and I both."