There was a transfer from three months ago.

A wire transfer of fifty thousand dollars to an LLC I didn’t recognize.

The name of the entity was “Hesperia Holdings.”

I sat back in my chair, staring at the screen.

We had no investments under that name.

I opened a search tab and typed in the name, but nothing came up immediately.

I went back to the banking screen and scrolled further down, looking at the previous year.

There was another transfer to the same company.

Eighty thousand dollars.

Then another, two years ago, for one hundred thousand.

My fingers grew cold as I clicked through the older statements.

These weren’t standard investment withdrawals.

They were large, irregular sums of money leaving our shared accounts, completely unnoticed by me.

I had trusted Ethan to manage the joint portfolio because he was the financial executive.

I had signed the tax returns he put in front of me, barely looking at the schedules.

I looked back at the screen.

The total was climbing into the hundreds of thousands.

I heard footsteps on the stairs.