Colette was evicted from the main property when the mortgage default provisions transferred total control of it to my holding company.

Serena surrendered the apartment, the car, and the jewelry, all of it corporate property she had never owned, and eventually testified against Preston in exchange for a plea deal.

And Preston himself tried, to the very end, to blame everyone but himself — his father, Serena, the accounting department, me, the brothers, anyone.

No one listened anymore.

That is the thing about a man like Preston, in the end: his entire power had always been the power to make other people accept his version of reality, and the moment the truth was documented and public and undeniable, he had nothing left, because he had never actually possessed anything but the story, and the story was over.

Chapter 16 — The Divorce