His crimes had been possible because the firm had allowed a single person to accumulate unchecked, unmonitored authority — over the money, over the trusts, and, most horrifyingly, over the medical decisions of a family member who could not consent.

The forged surgical authorization had worked because a hospital had accepted a husband’s word about his unconscious wife’s wishes, and because no structure existed to question it.

The eight-million-dollar fraud had worked because one executive could move capital through channels no one else was watching.

Every piece of what Dorian did had required a system with a blind spot, and she was determined that the blind spot would not survive him.

So she made it her price.

No lone executive holding the trusts.