It was enough.
Not to sentence anyone that morning.
Real investigations do not work like that.
Enough to stop them from leaving.
Enough to freeze the transaction.
Enough to separate me from Adrian before he could invent another version of what happened.
Thomas was arrested first on financial and fraud-related charges once authorities traced the attempted transfer and falsified medical records.
Margaret faced charges related to conspiracy and unlawful administration of medication after evidence showed she had handled at least some of the tablets.
Adrian faced the hardest questions.
He claimed he had been manipulated by his father.
Some of that was probably true.
It did not make him innocent.
He had known.
He had signed.
He had married me while knowing exactly what Thomas hoped to access.
Investigators later found messages between Adrian and Thomas from six months before our wedding.
One message stayed with me.
Thomas:
You don’t have to love her. You just have to be convincing.
