“I wanted the company’s valuation lowered.

So that your divorce settlement would be smaller.”

There it was.

Diego had orchestrated the great embezzlement, yes — but Arthur had held the door open for him, on purpose, to rob me of the settlement I was legally owed.

My husband had not been an innocent man fooled by his scheming brother.

He had been a willing collaborator in a smaller theft that had grown, under Diego’s hand, into a far larger one than he had bargained for.