That was the moment my case stopped being about my own grievance and became about something larger.

I was no longer only a wronged wife recovering what I was owed.

I was the person who happened to be positioned to catch a man who was stealing the retirements of people who would never have the resources to catch him themselves.

It gave the long nights a different weight.

I was not just fighting for me.

I was reading the numbers for everyone Luke had counted on no one ever reading them for.

Chapter 10 — What He Told Me