Luke had made fools of two women that afternoon.

It was only that one of us had seen it coming.

Chapter 15 — The Reckoning

The legal storm, once it broke, was thorough and final, in the way that only a well-built case can be.

Confronted with the mountain of evidence Daniel’s firm had assembled — the traced transfers, the offshore accounts, the CFO’s confession, the routing numbers off the hard drive I was never supposed to find — Luke pleaded guilty.

Federal wire fraud.