It was the whole of it.

Chapter 10 — VLM Lifestyle Holdings

At forty-one minutes past midnight, I found it.

Twelve separate wire transfers, spread out over weeks to stay quiet, totaling one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars, moving out of my mother’s retirement savings and into an account controlled by a shell company that had been registered only recently.

The company was called VLM Lifestyle Holdings.

VLM.