Sloane Hayes Kept Track of Every Dollar Before Her Husband Ever Signed the Apex Account

“What do I say to the staff?”

“Tell them payroll is taken care of.”

“Is it really?”

“Not yet.

But your father set aside twelve thousand dollars in the corporate membership reserve.

That money never touched the card line.”

I wrote the shortfall on the back of a deposit slip.

Six thousand one hundred forty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents.