Imogen put that figure on a whiteboard in her office on the sixteenth of January 2025 and then wrote the balance underneath it.

Eight hundred and seventy-one thousand four hundred dollars.

And she said: “Mr.

Thorne.

Look at those two numbers.

“The trust is worth almost exactly what it was worth on the day your son was born.

Nineteen years of growth on eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars, in a reasonably invested portfolio, is somewhere north of two and a half million.

“They did not loot it.