It was an application for a commercial insurance product tied to a small business registered under Priscilla’s name.

Talia had seen Iris’s signature on an older legitimate form and noticed that the new one looked copied.

“When I asked about it,” she wrote, “he said spouses sign things for each other all the time.

I told him I didn’t think that was acceptable.

He removed me from those files.”

Iris read the message without moving.

The company name was unfamiliar, but the address was the storage facility Garrett had mentioned to Mr.

Ortega.