She tried to bargain, but Trevor had kept a notebook, a sloppy, frightened record of every conversation, every threat, every wire.

He handed it over without being asked.

She took a plea deal with eighteen months in prison and a ban from ever holding fiduciary authority again.

The Kessler Private Group collapsed more slowly.

Howard passed everything he had to the state attorney general and a federal task force that, it turned out, had been quietly building a case against Lyle Voss for years.

The two-million-dollar note was voided as an unlawful loan secured by a fraudulent representation.