“I found something much worse,” she said.

“Tell me.”

“The Kessler family company is tied to a web of shell companies — and they didn’t spring up around your marriage, Emma.

They’re older than that.

They predate you and Nathan by years.” She took a breath.

“And they’re connected to Ashford business dealings.

And to assets that used to belong to your father.”

The floor of my life shifted a few degrees and never quite settled again.