And so, in that hospital room, with her split lip and her shaking hands, my sister told me the truth.

Chapter 12 — The Coercion

Three months earlier, Rachel had stumbled onto something in Victor’s records — several fraudulent shell companies, registered in my name without my knowledge.

Victor had been embezzling from the warehouse for years, and he had built the paper trail so that if regulators ever came looking, the crime would appear to belong to me.

His own wife, set up in advance to take the fall.

When Rachel confronted him, Victor did not deny it.