By 8:10 a.m., Daniel and Chloe still had not boarded a plane.

By then, corporate counsel and federal fraud investigators were already walking into the airport terminal.

Those three weeks before the safe opened had not been dramatic in the way people expect.

They had been methodical.

After I found the first false signature, Margaret told me to keep living as if I knew nothing.

That was the hardest instruction I have ever followed.

I sat across from Daniel at breakfast and asked about his flight times.