They Thought They Were Turning Me Into Someone Smaller and Easier to Rob – Instead They Walked, One by One, Into a Room a Fraud Attorney Had Spent Years Building Around Them

“Of course, Charles,” I said softly, in the small broken voice they had all taught me to use.

And I placed my thumb on the scanner.

Chapter 13 — Everything

The screen went red.

An alert I had waited a year to see spread across it, and somewhere in three cities, systems I had built began, all at once, to close.

Charles’s calm cracked for the first time in twenty years.

“What is that,” he said.

“What did you do.” “I authorized a transfer, Charles,” I said, “with my heart rate at a hundred and forty.