She was not crying.

She had the look of a hunter watching something slip the trap at the last second — already, I think, calculating the next approach.

Chapter 14 — Locking It Down

The next morning I changed every lock, every code, every password and banking authorization tied to my name, and I called my accountants, my corporate counsel, and my bank managers before most of them had finished their coffee.

By noon my bank had flagged it: an attempt, made that very morning, to draw a four-hundred-thousand-dollar line of credit against my estate, using my social security number and my corporate tax ID.