Final Chapter: The Final Settlement
Julian’s phone suddenly began ringing frantically on the table.
He didn’t answer it. Then it rang again. And again.
Panic seized him. He snatched the phone up and pressed it to his ear. “Hello?”
“Julian!” Sarah Sterling’s hysterical voice shrieked through the speaker so loudly I could hear every word. “The bank just rejected the two-million-dollar wire! The corporate accounts are frozen! The federal investigators just walked into our office with a subpoena!”
“What?!” Julian screamed, his knees giving out as he sank back onto the sofa. “What are you talking about?!”
“Your wife filed a fraud report three hours ago!” Sarah sobbed. “They have the original trust documents! They know we used forged collateral statements to secure the startup loans! The police are here, Julian!”
The phone slipped from Julian’s hand, crashing onto the hardwood floor.
He looked up at me, his eyes wide with a horrific, unvarnished terror. He looked at the quiet, obedient wife who had spent three years listening to him minimize her worth, and for the first time, he saw who I really was.
“You… you ruined me,” he choked out.
