A Forensic Accountant Found Millions Missing From the Family’s Children’s Charity — And a Dead Man’s Ledgers That Named Who Took It
Astrid read it slowly.
“It says: To be delivered to Freya only if the family forgets why she was brought into our lives.”
The sentence chilled me to the bone, because of the word in the middle of it. Brought. Not came. Not married in. Brought — as though I were an object that had been introduced into the Abernathy family deliberately, for a purpose, by someone who had a reason.
I had always believed I met Kieran by pure chance, at a charity dinner eight years earlier.