Piper nodded solemnly.

Then she brought me a picture book and said, “We can read just one page.”

PART 13: The Money Behind the Silence

Naomi’s review of the family finances revealed an uncomfortable pattern.

Wyatt’s companies were complicated, but the household accounts told a simpler story.

Over eighteen months, funds designated for our daughter’s education and a charitable trust I helped establish had been shifted between entities without the approvals described in their governing documents.

I did not immediately understand what I was looking at.