But what truly undid Julian was Julian, the accumulated hubris of a man who had gotten away with it long enough to believe he always would.

The snake was not hard to audit.

He had grown fat and slow on the assumption that no one was auditing at all.

And the moment someone finally was, all those months of careless confidence became a trail of evidence a mile wide, leading straight to the ruin he had been building for himself, one arrogant step at a time, the entire time he thought he was getting away with it.

Chapter 16 — The Reclaimed Home