Arthur looked at Diego, and at Selina, and I am told that the color left his face entirely, because he had just understood, all at once, the true and total shape of what had been done to him — and, worse, what he had helped do to me in the process.

Chapter 13 — The Real Scheme

The full architecture of it came out over the weeks that followed, in interrogation rooms and forensic audits, and it was uglier and more calculated than anything I could have invented.

Diego and Selina had been involved, on and off, for nearly five years.

When Selina became pregnant, she had gone to Diego first.

But Diego was buried in debt from a failed real estate venture, and he refused her flatly. I don’t have the money to support a family, he told the mother of his own child.