I did not do anything dramatic. That is what nobody expects. I exercised the rights I already had.

Monday morning I called a special meeting as majority member and removed Desmond as managing partner, which required my signature and no one else’s. Tuesday the employee trust voted with me, ninety-six people who had been watching him take three-hour lunches for two years. Wednesday the bank was notified of the change in signatory authority, and every transfer he had made since March was flagged for review. Thursday the auditors arrived. Friday his card stopped working at a restaurant, which I understand is how he found out.

Three hundred and thirty-five thousand had gone out in four months. Marisol’s share was framed as a consulting agreement for work no one could describe. She returned it in eleven days without being asked twice, and she also sent me the video, unedited, from her own phone. I have never used it. I have never needed to.