It’s a betrayal that’s about so much more than money.
He moves to stand.
“He gave me his assistant’s password to login to the system.” His hands rake his hair. “That’s why I had access to everything. The more I searched accounts, the more discrepancies I found.”
“Did you bring it up to your dad?”
“Hell no.” He turns back toward me. “I listened to him lie on the phone to clients. They’d call wanting to cash out an investment and he’d tell them the timing was off, or he’d need a couple of weeks to pull the paperwork to release it.”
His hand lands on his bare stomach. “He’d take money from someone else’s account to pay out the first. It was a circle that was collapsing on itself.”
I slide to my feet. “What did you do?”
He takes a deep breath. “I turned him in. I went to the police, they got the feds involved, and I gave them all the evidence they needed to put Craig Weston and his wife away for the rest of their lives.”
***
I stand behind him watching him.
He’s been staring out the window for the last ten minutes since he told me that he turned his father in.
He’s a brave man.
“You did the right thing, Jeremy.”
He looks at my reflection in the glass. “Not everyone would agree with you.”
I move closer to him with unsteady steps. “I’m sure your father and his wife wouldn’t agree, but they’re criminals.”
He turns to face me. “They are.”
I tug on the sash of the robe to tighten it. “I’m glad you told me.”
“There’s more.”
I freeze.
“That’s not even the part that matters, angel.” He glances up that ceiling. “Jesus, I wish that was all I had to tell you, but you’re going to need to sit back down for the rest of it.”
I stay standing. “What else is there?”
His phone starts ringing in the distance. He looks toward the bedroom, but he doesn’t move from where he’s standing.
“Do you need to get that?” I ask quietly. “I can wait here if you need to get it.”
“I love you, Linny.” His voice cracks. “I need you to know that.”
Tears well in the corners of my eyes, fear squeezing me from the inside out. “Please tell me what it is. What are you keeping from me, Jeremy?”
His phone stops ringing, only to start again a few seconds later.
“I’ll show you.” He holds out his hand to me. “Get dressed and I’ll show you.”
Chapter 51
Linny
He’s been silent since we left the hotel.