My message about freezing the accounts had made him panic — he thought I’d uncovered the fraud — which was why he’d launched the smear campaign to discredit me first.

Julian set a thick legal folder on my desk.

“The arrest warrant’s been signed,” he said.

“But when they bring him in, something is going to come out that no one in your family is ready to hear.”

Chapter 3 — What the Recording Held

Mark was arrested the next morning at a cheap motel near JFK.

Police recovered fake IDs, fraudulent contracts, lists of victims, and messages where he bragged about charging people ten thousand dollars each for fake work visas through my company.

Chloe came to the hospital that afternoon, dragging her six-year-old son, Noah, by the hand.