“You’ve done something most people never manage,” Imani told her at the end of the second meeting, tapping the stack of statements.
“You kept the receipts.
People come to me with a broken heart and no paper.
You’ve come to me with a broken heart and a case.” She closed the folder.
“We can freeze all of it.
We can compel the repayment.
And if his firm learns how those expense accounts were used, the divorce may be the least of his problems.
But I need to ask you something, and I need an honest answer.
Do you want quiet, or do you want the truth on the record?”
Odette thought about six years of the charity-case smile.