This was the arrival of the law, and it had been arriving, quietly, in motion for months, while she was busy planning how to make me take off my robe.

Chapter 14 — Not for Revenge

I want to be honest about my own motives here, because they matter, and because the truth of them is stranger and better than simple revenge.

I had turned the evidence over to the authorities three months before that party.

Not, at first, out of any desire for vengeance.

I had gone back into my grandfather’s box, after years of leaving it closed, for a specific reason: because I had begun to notice, in my professional life, familiar patterns.

And when I reviewed the old documents alongside some current ones, I discovered that my parents had recently filed another suspicious insurance claim, this one involving one of their commercial properties.