"Someone needed you to feel responsible," the doctor told him.
Lawyer Elena Ross conducted her investigations. In just a few weeks: suspicious transfers, questionable signatures, exchanges linking Julian to a clinic manager. A real mechanism designed to deprive her of everything, by making her bear the weight of guilt alone.
She was a financial auditor before Julian gradually convinced her to give up her career. Garrison's family—the Vances—ran a philanthropic medical network suspected of internal malfeasance. He asked her to examine it. She identified the anomalies in eleven days.
When the masks finally fell off
On the day of the official reopening of the Vance Foundation, Julian appeared in front of the cameras. Garrison walked forward quietly and listed his titles: president of the foundation, senior partner of Vance Capital, owner of the company that had bought out Julian's employer three months earlier.
Julian's face has lost all its color.
