But you do not audit the man who held your hand at your father’s grave.

You do not run forensic accounting on the friend who remembers your childhood dog.

That was Charles’s genius, and it was my father’s blind spot, and it very nearly became my grave: he understood that the safest place to steal from a person is from directly inside their trust, in plain sight, wearing the face of the one man no one would ever think to check.

Nathan believed he was the villain of my story.