What had happened was that Rhodes Capital, in the ordinary course of a legitimate business acquisition, had discovered evidence of serious financial crime, and Rhodes Capital had a legal obligation to report that evidence to the proper authorities.

It was not personal.

That was precisely the point, and precisely what Marcus could not grasp: that his downfall was not my passion project but a professional obligation, that I was bringing him down not with the heat of a wronged wife but with the cool procedural inevitability of the compliance function itself.

He had supplied the evidence.

The law required the report.

I was the person who happened to be standing at the intersection.