Chapter 17 — The Reckoning

The financial review ran for months, and it was thorough, and it was entirely lawful, and Isadora never once had to step outside the truth to win with it.

Lucius answered formal questions about the misleading documents, the unauthorized transactions, the misused funds.

Seraphine cooperated with the investigators and turned over what she had, though her own part in it was examined just as carefully.

Lenette sold a great many expensive things to cover her expenses.

Thea shut down her accounts for a few months and eventually took a junior job at a small ad agency where no one had heard of her family.