That’s why she had been demanding answers.
Not because she wanted Mark back.
Because she wanted her money.
I sat silently.
Then Claire said something that changed everything.
“There’s one more thing.”
“What?”
“The company isn’t failing because of debt.”
My heart began pounding.
“Then why?”
“Because someone has been stealing from it.”
“Who?”
She whispered a name.
And when she said it, I recognized it immediately.
It was Mark’s business partner.
His own brother.
The man who had sat at our birthday dinner.
The man who had toasted Mark.
The man who had spent the entire evening smiling beside him.
I couldn’t believe it.
Claire continued.
“And there’s evidence.”
“What kind?”
“Bank transfers.”
I closed my eyes.
Suddenly, everything made sense.
The missing money.
The secret accounts.
The property transfers.
The strange behavior.
The fear.
Mark wasn’t simply hiding his financial problems from me.
Someone close to him had been destroying the company from the inside.
