Caleb is—” “Caleb has been diverting company money offshore through a set of shell entities registered in Delaware,” Julian said, and I noticed he gave only the shape of it, not the mechanics, because the mechanics were not the point.

He gestured to one of the attorneys who had come in behind him.

The senior attorney stepped forward, unzipped a leather briefcase, and placed a red folder down directly on top of the surrender papers my mother had brought, one folder covering the other, which felt exactly right.

“Three months ago,” Julian continued, wrapping his warm hand around mine, “Chloe handed those complete forensic records to my legal team.

I chose to hold off on filing the criminal audit reports, because Chloe was in her third trimester, and I would not subject the mother of my child to the stress of your company’s public collapse before our son was safely born.” He turned his gaze to my father, and his eyes held no mercy at all.