They had adapted to the deprivation so gracefully that they’d stopped being able to see it as deprivation at all.
The forensic analysis, when it came, was total.
Gideon had forged the letters, his mother’s signature, dozens of bank receipts.
He had even changed the mailing address on the account so that every paper statement went not to his parents’ house but to a rented drop box under the shell company’s name — so that the people being robbed would never see the record of it.
Investigators froze what remained in the offshore funds.
And Micah, without being asked, went to the authorities and told them everything he’d known and everything he’d chosen not to know, and asked for nothing in return.