“David was using your clean Social Security number to make his required monthly restitution payments to his old employer, Apex Logistics.”

“Restitution for what, exactly?” Sarah asked, leaning back against the cold radiator cover.

“He embezzled ninety-six thousand dollars from Apex over three years,” Vance said.

“They agreed not to bring federal criminal charges as long as he wired four thousand dollars on the twelfth of every month.”

The four thousand dollars he’d taken out on Tuesday hadn’t gone to an apartment deposit or a second family.

It had gone straight to paying off a corporate auditor and keeping him out of a federal prison cell.