“I’ve never met her,” Odile said, staring at the property record Garrick had pulled up, something old and unsettled moving behind her composed exterior. “Callum rarely spoke of his sister. I knew she existed. I assumed, the way I assumed a great many things during that marriage, that she’d simply chosen a life separate from the family business.”
“She didn’t,” Garrick said grimly. “According to this, Vivienne Ashgrove has held partial ownership of at least four shell companies tied to Callum’s operation for over a decade. Quiet, background involvement — never public-facing, never the one making contact, which is likely exactly why she never surfaced in any of our earlier searches.”
“The architect,” Ronan said slowly, “not the enforcer. Which means Callum’s arrest may not have disrupted th
