And the forensic accountant Ines had used in the September had already found something that neither of us had understood at the time: the three companies that took my grandmother’s sixty-one thousand had also taken, between 2021 and 2025, forty-one million in what were described as investor subscriptions.
From a hundred and nine people.
Sixty of whom, it turned out, were on that wedding guest list.
What I actually did at
the wedding.
Everybody wants this to be a scene. It was not a scene.
I went to Thornhallow House on the fourteenth of November with my daughter, five weeks old, in a sling. I wore a green dress that did not fit me. I was on table eleven, which is what he thought of me, and which I have been grateful for ever since, because table eleven is by the door.
I did not stand up during the speeches. I did not hand anybody anything. I did not say one word to Ondine Marr all day.
