Elena found the ledger three days later.
It was in a spreadsheet she had never noticed before, buried in a folder of tax documents Julian had asked her to keep for him. According to the sheet, Julian had been drawing from a small discretionary fund that the trust kept for family members. The fund was meant for emergencies, and the trust required each withdrawal to be documented. Julian had taken eleven thousand dollars over the last eighteen months and labeled every withdrawal as "medical."
He had also forged his father's signature on two of the authorization forms. Elena knew it was forged because she had seen Charles Ashford's real signature on a birthday card, and the letters were completely different.
"I can use this," she said. "If I go to the family lawyer, he can't pretend he did
