Now let’s settle this like adults — since your son decided to involve himself in things that don’t concern him, and you came running right after him.”

Chapter 23 — What He Really Was

“My son found out what you really are,” I said, cold.

“You don’t know anything about my life!” Lachlan shouted, and the shout had fear underneath it.

“I know enough to put you away for the rest of it,” I said.

And then I said the thing out loud, finally, the shape of what the notebook and the ledgers and the hollow company all added up to.