They believed I was bluffing.

They believed it because Luca had told them I was a quiet little compliance consultant — a harmless functionary he had married for reasons of his own.

He had never bothered to learn what I did for a living, which was forensic financial investigation.

I was the person that powerful institutions hired, quietly, to hunt down shell corporations and buried fraudulent transfers.

I found the money that arrogant men were certain no one would ever find.