From the hallway, a calm voice answered.

“I’m already here.”

Chapter 6 — The Witness He Should Have Feared

Nigel Sutcliffe, my father’s attorney, came into the study with two bank investigators behind him, and Leon stopped smiling.

I want to describe the look that crossed my brother’s face, because it was the first honest expression I had seen from him all day.

Up until that moment he had been looking at me the way he had looked at me our whole lives — as the weak sister, the quiet one, the one who could be shouted down and frightened into stepping aside.