I had signed without reading it all.
I was in pain, I was tired and I trusted my husband.
God, I whispered.
Dad agreed.
— Those documents gave him certain administrative and authoritarian rights. Not enough to do anything but enough to exploit weak internal controls.
I carried my hands to my head.
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How much?
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We’re still checking.
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Dad, how much?
He hesitated.
“From the documents we have been able to analyze legally so far, about $2.4 million appears to have been directed to entities that have links to Julian and Chloe.
I felt I couldn’t breathe anymore.
Two million four hundred thousand dollars.
It wasn’t just money.
They were my people’s wages. The contracts I had earned by working late. The savings I had reinvested in the company instead of buying the things I wanted.
My company, Hayes Meridian Group, had started in a rented office with two computers and three employees. After fifteen years, we had almost a hundred people in the team and contracts with major firms in several states.
