The third person who stepped out of the vehicle was Thomas’s old business partner.

dramatic tears I’d seen from him before.

Real tears.

The kind that make a grown man’s shoulders shake.

“I was scared.”

“Of what?”

“Of losing everything.”

“You already had everything.”

“I know.”

“Then why?”

He looked at Genevieve.

She looked away.

And suddenly I understood.

There was more.

Something Benjamin still wasn’t telling me.

I turned to Richard.

“What happened after Thomas wrote this?”

Richard sighed.

“Your husband hired an accountant to investigate.”

“And?”

“The accountant found irregular transfers.”

“From the business?”

“Yes.”

“To where?”

Richard hesitated.

Then he looked