Chapter 6 — What They Never Knew

Here is the thing that Luca and his mother never once remembered, in three years of treating me as a decorative silence to be managed.

Before I ever married Luca, I had spent nine years as a senior corporate forensic accountant.

Not a bookkeeper.

Not an office manager.

A forensic accountant — one of the people that companies and courts and banks hire specifically to find the money that powerful people have hidden, to trace it through the shell companies and the falsified ledgers and the layered transactions, and to assemble the proof in a form that will stand up in a courtroom.

Finding buried financial crimes was not a hobby of mine.