Preston went rigid.

Because it was true, and because I had the proof, and because I had had it for months.

I had uncovered the first unauthorized transfer four months earlier, and then a second, and then fourteen more after that.

Serena’s luxury high-rise apartment, her new car, her jewelry, her overseas vacations — all of it had been purchased, indirectly, using Calloway Development’s operating capital, the company’s money, which was, through my emergency financing, substantially my money.

But the theft ran far deeper than a kept mistress.