“Forgive me.” Nolan ran to her and wrapped his arms around her waist, and for a moment the three of us just held on.

Then she handed me her phone.

On the screen were more of the same — emails, photographs of loan applications, and a thread of text messages between Vivienne and a man named Corbin Rourke.

One from Vivienne read: Wedding is Saturday.

Signatures Monday.

Once the joint trust is executed, we move forward. And Corbin’s reply beneath it: Don’t push him too fast.

One suspicious signature ruins everything. My phone buzzed a final time in my hand, a last text from Vivienne: If you cancel this wedding, you will regret humiliating me. Desmond read it over my shoulder.