And then, because he was not finished, he reached over and flipped the notebook to its final pages.

Chapter 8 — RZ Consulting

Glued carefully to the final pages of the notebook were printouts.

Not of hotels or restaurants this time.

These were financial records: printed statements showing a series of wire transfers, moving money out of a joint holding account that Julian and I owned together, and into an entity I had never heard of, called RZ Consulting LLC.

I read the figures twice before they registered.