Lila was arrested on a Wednesday morning.
Mia heard about it from Patricia at 8:47 a.m. — brief, factual, the way Patricia delivered everything. The DA's office had moved faster than anyone expected, which Patricia attributed to the completeness of Dom's forensic report, the notebooks, the Renata Sloane connection, and the security footage from Nathan's building, which had apparently been the thing that finally pushed the investigation from *credible* to *urgent.*
The charges were document fabrication, fraud, and criminal conspiracy.
Renata Sloane had been charged the same morning at her Houston address. She had, according to Patricia's contact at the DA's office, agreed to speak with prosecutors before her attorney arrived, which was either an act of extraordinary naivety or the first
