Marcus found Dale Raines on a Thursday.
Not his location, that took another day. What Marcus found first was the money. The remaining wire transfers, the ones that connected Dale to Serena, but also a third party that had been hiding behind both of them.
The third party was a man named Gordon Pryce.
I knew that name.
I was in Kade's home office when Marcus showed me the file and the name came off the page at me like something physical.
Gordon Pryce was a senior partner at a rival legal and financial firm. He was also the man who had served as opposing counsel in the Victor Raines fraud case three years ago. The case I had lost. The case that, by the strange arithmetic of grief and blame, had become the foundation of all of this.
I stared at the file.
"Pryce was the opposing counsel,
