It could not do otherwise.

It had only ever had one thing to say.

Chapter 13 — Forced Liquidation

The financial reckoning came close behind the criminal one, and it was just as total.

The state banking commission and federal fraud investigators moved in on Blake’s firm, and the forensic audit laid the whole scheme bare: he had been systematically embezzling client funds and diverting my daughters’ inheritance money into offshore accounts held in Danielle’s name.

His firm went into forced liquidation within ninety days.