PART 2

Mrs. Higgins gently helped me up from the bed while Luke studied his tablet as if he were directing a military operation. I drank the warm water, swallowed some plain soup, and felt my strength slowly returning to my limbs, along with a cold rage that focused my mind perfectly.

“Explain every single detail of this to me, right now,” I said.

Luke turned the bright screen back toward me. “Brenda embezzled sixty-eight million dollars over the last six months using three shell companies. One is based in the Cayman Islands, another in Miami, the last in San Francisco.

She foolishly thought no one would ever track her, because she used only the corporate accounts Christopher had authorized for representation expenses.”

“And how exactly do you know all of this, Luke?” I asked.

My son raised an eyebrow slightly. “Because one of the financial firms that processes those corporate accounts belongs to an investment fund in which I hold a major stake.”