Charles, Nathan, and Eleanor had been bound together by money and nothing else.

So Logan and I did not need to break their loyalty; we only needed to remove the money, and let their own natures do the rest.

Once the accounts froze and each of them understood, alone in a separate interview room, that the fortune they’d conspired to steal no longer existed and never would, the alignment that held them together evaporated in an afternoon.

There was nothing left to be loyal for.