It is an agonizing discipline, watching a theft you could stop and choosing not to, and it is the reason I am free today, and they are not.

Anger would have stopped one invoice.

Patience caught all three of them, with their own words, in a single afternoon.

The money I let them steal in those six months was, in the end, the cheapest thing I ever bought.

I bought their entire downfall with it, and they never knew they were paying.

Chapter 9 — Clear Claire’s Office