I Escaped Her Locked Estate in a Storm — By Morning I Held the Evidence That Would End Her at the 10 O’Clock Board Meeting

And then, looking out at the road, he said, almost to himself, “Your stepmother has been trying to refinance around our debt covenants for months.

I could never work out why she was so desperate, or so reckless.” He glanced at me, at my bleeding feet, at the storm I had just escaped.

“Tonight tells me why.”

My phone began to vibrate violently in my hand.

Wendy.

Then Luca.

Then Wendy again.

I answered, and put it on speaker, and let Flynn hear.