Yet in that dining room, their courage had stopped at sending a message after they got home.

PART 10: What Harper Had Been Promised

Harper was not simply an old friend who enjoyed provoking me.

I learned the depth of that truth from the messages investigators later obtained through proper legal process and from records my lawyer requested during the family case.

She and Wyatt had been having an affair for nearly a year.

She had been offered an advisory role at one of his investment firms, a position with a salary so generous that even the payroll manager had questioned its responsibilities.

Wyatt had brushed aside those concerns as ordinary executive discretion.