The recovery email on the application belonged to Corbin Rourke.

She had not stopped.

She had been stopped at the altar, stopped in my study, walked off my property by police, and she had still, the next morning, reached for the money one more time — which told me, more than anything else did, exactly what I had almost married.

Because a person who has been caught — genuinely caught, with police and cameras and a canceled wedding and a metal box taken back out of her hands — feels something.

Fear, usually.