Daniel said nothing.

He was not sure how much more he could hold.

“Vanessa knew Andrew,” Maria said, “before she ever met you.” A chill went through him.

Maria had found, hidden inside one of the financial files, an old photograph — Vanessa, younger, standing beside several of the businessmen who had created the shell company that Andrew had unknowingly invested in, the very company whose collapse had driven him into hiding.

Years earlier, before she had ever entered Daniel’s life, Vanessa had worked as a financial adviser.