I trust her judgment.

Stop looking for problems where there aren’t any.

Marcus, it turned out, had not been the mastermind of anything.

He was something in some ways worse and in some ways more pitiable: reckless, financially irresponsible, and, through his own laziness and his misplaced trust, deeply compromised.

He had rubber-stamped Veronica’s fraud for years without looking, and when he finally understood that Mark’s audit was going to expose not just her theft but his own gross negligence in enabling it, that it would ruin him, financially and legally and in the eyes of the family, he had allowed himself to be manipulated by Veronica into helping cover up his own brother’s collapse.

He had chosen his reputation over his brother’s life.