“Every transaction, from the initial eighty-five-thousand-dollar house contribution down to the forty-two-dollar inhaler payment, is documented, audited, and certified.”

David unclipped a silver pen from his jacket pocket and laid it beside the document.

“You have until ten fifteen this morning to make full financial restitution and sign a voluntary property release,” David said, his baritone filling the silent room.

“If that release isn’t signed by then, we walk straight across the street to the Franklin County prosecutor’s office with the criminal assault and elder financial fraud file.”

Mark stood motionless beside the white quartz counter, his gold wristwatch slipping loose against his wrist, surrounded on all sides by the paper evidence that proved every single thing he had taken from me.