Chapter 12 — The Partnership

His offer, it turned out, had never been about marriage, and it had never been about money.

It was a partnership, and it was addressed to a specific thing about me that I had almost forgotten was mine.

The Cabot family ran a charitable medical network — clinics meant to serve people who couldn’t otherwise afford care — and the family suspected it was being quietly looted from the inside.

They needed someone who could read the money.

Someone outside the family, outside the institutions, who could go into the accounts and find the rot.