Marcus looked uncomfortable. “Would you have believed her?”

It was the same question Lena had asked him the night before.

Adrian closed the report. “Find out who pushed the divorce.”

Chapter 4 — They Wanted Your Wife to Come Home

Marcus did not need long. Philip Greer, the young analyst Donovan had recommended, had met eleven times with Carter Blaine, the director of a private equity firm connected to one of Adrian’s rivals.

Greer had built a psychological profile of Adrian — what flattered him, what frightened him, what made him distrust the people closest to him. The profile named Lena as Adrian’s greatest unseen advantage and his easiest emotional weakness.

For eighteen months, carefully placed remarks had encouraged him to resent her silence, and Donovan had repeated several of them himself.