“Prove it,” he hissed, spit flying.

“You’re a useless, paper-pushing nobody, Evelyn. I built everything we have. If you fight this divorce — if you even mention that money — I’ll crush you in court with lawyers you can’t afford to look at.

Sign the papers, take the scraps I’m leaving you, and consider yourself lucky I let you stick around this long.”

He turned and walked out, leaving the door ajar, his footsteps echoing down the hall.

He had just handed a verbal confession of federal wire fraud to a decorated U.S. Army colonel.

Chapter 4 — Colonel Shaw

Daniel’s cruelty had burned away my last hesitation.