A man careful enough to launder millions through a web of companies on two continents, and careless enough to protect it all with the date he married the woman he was deceiving.

The genius and the arrogance were never separate things in Julian.

They were the same thing, and in the end the arrogance was the crack the genius could not see.

I keyed in the digits.

There was a soft, heavy click as the latch released.

I lifted the lid, and for a moment I forgot to breathe.

Chapter 8 — What the Box Held

The cash was the first thing, and the least important, though at the time it stopped my heart.