“That doesn’t sound unusual.”

“It is today.”

“Why?”

He looked at her.

“Because if Douglas lied to you about the money that built our company, I need to know what else he lied about.”

Gwen watched him leave.

At that moment, she still believed her biggest problem was a divorce.

She had no idea that one forgotten bank figure from seventeen years earlier was about to open a door Douglas had spent almost two decades trying to keep closed.

PART 2 — THE NUMBER GIDEON COULDN’T FORGET

For the next several days, Gwen tried to make herself useful.