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“She fell after becoming hysterical. Garrick had to restrain her. A wife should not threaten her husband’s career.”

That was the first clue.

“What career?” I asked mildly.

Garrick smiled again. “Chief operating officer. The promotion becomes official tomorrow.”

“Of Ashford Industries?”

“You’ve heard of us?”

I looked at Sienna. Tears had filled her eyes.

“Yes,” I said. “I have.”

What Garrick did not know was that Ashford Industries still existed because my late husband and I had saved it from bankruptcy twenty-two years earlier. Our family trust still controlled thirty-eight percent of the company’s voting shares.

And I was the only trustee.

Part 2: The Flash Drive

Garrick mistook my silence for weakness.

“Sienna has been unstable for months,” he said. “She checks my calls, questions my spending, embarrasses me.”