And the shell company is registered to Flynn Vance.

Arthur’s son.”

Mabel went utterly still.

Because Flynn Vance had been the man who, when the audit first began, had stood up and loudly defended her — had played the sympathetic young employer, had told her to her face that he believed in her, that this would all be cleared up, even as the case was assembled and presented to his father.

“He told me he believed in me,” she whispered, and her voice shook.

“He looked me in the eye and told me he knew I would never do such a thing.”