And your safe deposit box — that spoke, too.”

Chapter 10 — Prepared Before She Hit the Ground

The safe deposit box. The darkness behind Adaira’s eyes filled, for a moment, with something like light.

Inside that box were certified copies of powers of attorney, recordings of partner meetings, a forensic accounting audit — and one specific clause, drafted in her own careful hand.

If she were ever to become incapacitated under suspicious circumstances, control of her estate and her shares in the firm passed not to her husband but to Rosamund Delacourt.

She had written it two years before she needed it, on nothing more than instinct and a handful of numbers that hadn’t added up, and it had been sitting in a vault the entire time Chandler believed he was dismantling a defenseless woman.