“So you will help me?” she asked.

“You will talk to the prosecutor?”

“We need to verify the files first,” Julian said, reaching for his phone.

“I am calling Priya.”

“She needs to run these credentials immediately before Bennett realizes Celeste has left the city.”

He walked toward the window, his voice dropping as he began to dial.

I looked at Celeste, who was shivering despite the warmth of the room.

“You took my home, Celeste,” I said quietly.

“You took my husband, and you tried to take my name.”

“I did what he told me to do,” she whispered, looking down at her hands.

“I thought he loved me.”

“Bennett loves nothing but the empire we built,” I said.

“And he was willing to destroy both of us to keep it.”

Julian walked back to the table, his phone held to his ear.

“Priya is online,” he said.

“She is booting up her terminal now.”

“She needs the decryption key and the IP address.”

I picked up my burner phone and took a photo of the back page of the ledger.