Chapter 10 — Zero Percent

I learned the rest of it later, in pieces, from confessions and court records, and I will tell it to you as I came to know it.

Flynn’s aunt, Fiona Vance, was the chief financial officer of Vance Global, and for years she had paid the estate’s own head of security a monthly bribe to report to her every private detail of Flynn’s life.

So the moment Flynn ordered that paternity test, Fiona knew.

And Fiona panicked, because Fiona, of everyone alive, understood best what that test would say, and what its truth would unravel.

Before sunrise, she intercepted the courier carrying the samples to the independent lab.