Chapter 11 — The Machinery

What happened next happened fast, and lawfully, and in a very particular order, because Darcy is a person who believes in order.

At 9:41, she filed an emergency petition to preserve the remaining marital assets and attached the transaction logs.

At 10:15, on the strength of the forged-signature evidence, the bank froze the joint accounts pending its own investigation.

At 10:32, Camden’s corporate card was suspended, because several of his personal charges had been quietly routed through his struggling consulting company, and struggling companies attract exactly the kind of scrutiny that finds things like that.