I answered with the law.

Only one of those leaves you able to look your daughter in the eye.

Chapter 9 — The Family Firm

Naomi turned to the next folder, and the thing kept getting larger, the way rot does once you open the wall.

Rothwell Global had also financed part of the luxury renovations on the home where Damon and Sloane were now living together — the home he had described to me, months earlier, on a cold divorce video call, as belonging entirely to Sloane’s family.

And the registered managing director of Rothwell Global Enterprises, the man whose signature sat at the bottom of the company that had drained my grandmother’s trust, was Everett Rothwell.