Chapter 16 — Marcus’s Role

That explained the money, and the motive.

But it still left Marcus’s role unclear, and the answer, when it came, was uglier and sadder than a simple villain would have been.

It emerged from an email thread Mark had archived.

Three months earlier, Marcus had signed off on several massive wire transfers without ever reviewing the invoices attached to them.

When Mark had confronted him about it, Marcus had emailed back a reply that turned out to be the key to his whole downfall: Veronica says these are urgent equipment fees.