He Married a Forensic Accountant and Decided Fraud Was a Good Hobby. He Forgot Who My Father Was

Sooner or later a man in it has to look at the walls, and the walls are mirrors.

Chapter 14 — He Has No One Left to Blame

After that, the truth did its work slowly, and without any help from me, which was exactly how I wanted it.

By that evening, Rowan’s access to the firm was suspended pending the investigation.

Two weeks later, once investigators had confirmed that he’d concealed his mother’s financial interest in the vendor and filed false conflict disclosures, Ellsworth Capital terminated him for cause.

Separately, and entirely on its own track, the bank’s fraud division examined the guarantee bearing my name, and the security logs and the email trail and the original signature file all led back, cleanly and unarguably, to Rowan’s own laptop.