she thinks our quarterly reports use too many adjectives.
The board is stronger.
The fraud controls are stronger.
So am I.
Not because Daniel betrayed me.
Pain does not automatically improve people.
I am stronger because I stopped confusing silence with peace.
PART 40
Sometimes I think about that photograph.
Daniel and Chloe at the international terminal.
Both smiling.
My mother’s bracelet around Chloe’s wrist.
Underneath it:
“Goodbye, Audrey. When you wake up, you’ll realize you have nothing
left.”
Daniel believed it was the final scene.
He believed I was unconscious in our bed.
He believed the safe was empty.
He believed the documents in his bag gave him control.
He believed the money had already moved.
He believed I had never seen any of it coming.
I typed four words.
“The accounts are frozen.”
Seven seconds later, my phone rang.
That was the moment Daniel finally understood something he should have
