It usually is.

Chapter 11 — Victoria Vance

That same afternoon, I called Victoria Vance.

She was a family lawyer I had crossed paths with through my work, someone with a specialty in exactly the kind of tangle we were in, the complicated cases where domestic abuse and financial exploitation braid together into one problem.

I had remembered her precisely because of how she had spoken about that work once, with a cold competence I recognized and trusted.

She agreed to see us right away.