The attached filing schedule showed Apex Consulting had been set up thirty-six days before Grant made his first withdrawal from our joint investment account.

Over thirty-six months, exactly two hundred forty thousand dollars had flowed from Holloway Real Estate into Apex accounts.

I drove back to my rented apartment with the sealed corporate papers lying flat in my leather folder on the passenger seat.

At three in the afternoon the doorbell rang twice.

I opened the door and found Margaret standing in the hallway with Sophie’s light pink denim jacket over her left arm.

“She left this in the downstairs closet on Sunday,” Margaret said, walking past me without waiting to be invited in.