And then he told me the rest.

Chapter 11 — The Vanished Heir

His full name was Cormac Ridley Cabot.

He had served as sheriff in this county for a decade after leaving the military — a real job, a real badge, not a costume — and then, when his wife died, he had stepped out of public life entirely and let the world go on believing he was nothing more than a widowed lawman rattling around a farmhouse.

But the Cabot name, he explained, sitting on an overturned crate in the dim of the barn while the rain came down, sat above hospitals and research institutes and security firms and an investment group that moved twelve billion dollars.

He was the heir to all of it.