And when I pulled the thread, it led to hotel bookings paid with company funds, and to expense reports describing client meetings that the clients, when quietly asked, did not remember attending.

None of it had required genius to find.

That is the thing people misunderstand about fraud of this kind; it is rarely clever.

It is only hidden, and hidden in the particular way that counts on no one with the skill to read it ever bothering to look.

Damian had counted on exactly that.

He had counted on the books being examined, if ever, by people as impressed with him as he was with himself, and he had not once imagined the examiner would be the wife he had taught the whole world to overlook.

I had not confronted anyone.