Before she could do it again, the detective caught her wrist.
Daniel quickly changed tactics.
He stepped closer, softened his expression, and spoke as though we were still alone in our home.
“Emma, we can survive this. I love you.”
I looked at the man I had married twelve years earlier.
“My lawyer filed for divorce at nine o’clock this morning.”
His expression changed.
“You can’t take the house.”
“It belonged to me before our marriage.”
“What about the company?”
“Your employment was terminated by unanimous board vote twenty minutes ago.”
Vanessa screamed that the charity belonged to her.
One of the board members handed her an official removal notice.
Then the detective informed both of them that they were being investigated for fraud, embezzlement, conspiracy, and destruction of financial records.
They were escorted past Sofia’s white coffin.
Neither of them looked back at her.
But their downfall did not end inside that church.
