“You’ve always been too emotional for business,” he told me.

“Sienna understands how the real world works.”

What he forgot was that I understood forensic accounting.

Chapter 3 — Six Months of Silence

For six months, I said nothing. I moved into a modest apartment, took consulting work, and let my family believe they’d won.

And the whole time, I followed every suspicious transaction. I found forged signatures.

Hidden companies.