We’re exactly the same, Adrian.

That’s why I picked you.”

Chapter 14 — The Vote

There was, in the end, very little for the board to deliberate.

They voted, unanimously, to remove both Adrian and Marcus from every position and title they held at Northstar Medical, to freeze their compensation and unvested benefits immediately, and to refer the entire matter — the eleven million dollars, the phantom firms, the forged approvals — to the federal authorities for prosecution.

My attorney, in the same hour, served Vanessa with an asset-freeze order covering every property she had purchased with the money she had stolen.