My husband had twins with my best friend. I signed the divorce papers without a word. Then he went to his mother’s house, and she went white and said, “She still hasn’t told you about that?”

He came in as COO in 2019.

Northwind Creative LLC was registered on the ninth of March, 2023. Sole member: Teague Adair. Blythe’s cousin. Thirty-eight, lives in Marrow County, sells industrial flooring.

Between March of 2023 and March of this year, Rourke & Line paid Northwind Creative forty-one invoices.

Seven hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred dollars.

For “brand strategy,” “campaign development,” and, on nine of them, “retainer.”

There is no work product. Not one deck, not one asset, not one meeting in any calendar in that building.

Every single invoice was approved by Corbin, under a delegated authority I gave him in 2019, all of them under the eight hundred thousand threshold that would have required a second signature, and eleven of them for exactly forty-nine thousand five hundred, which is five hundred dollars under the level that triggers a finance review.

He knew where every line was because I wrote the policy.

That money paid for a penthouse on Vessel Wharf, a private maternity package at the Wexford Clinic, and a nursery I have since seen photographs of.

The second thing.

Underneath all of that there was an envelope, postmarked the twenty-eighth of March, which had arrived three weeks before the photographs.

Inside it was a photocopy of a urology report from August of 2002.

Corbin Wray, aged nineteen. Bilateral orchitis following mumps. Two semen analyses, six weeks apart. Non-obstructive azoospermia. The word irreversible appears twice.