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

And she saw, already, where it was weak.

Chapter 3 — The Intervention

Eleanor unlocked the door and let Nathan in, and the two of them sat me down at my own dining table with the particular gentleness people use right before they do something cruel.

There were papers.

Of course there were papers; with people like this there are always papers.

Nathan slid a folder across the table and spoke in the soft, sorrowful voice he’d perfected.

“Julia.