Chapter 23 · Untitled Chapter

"You want the truth?" Sienna shoved a leather ledger across the desk. "Take it. But don't ask me to like you after."

I caught it before it hit the floor. My hands were still shaking. Behind us, the projector clicked as it cooled, but Mia's voice stayed lodged in my skull.

*I can't pay this time. Tell Val I'm sorry.*

"What is this?"

"Every debt she ran from." Sienna leaned back, arms crossed. Soot streaked her collarbone beneath the half-open collar of her shirt. "Every person she borrowed from. Every lie she sold. Six years of them."

I opened the ledger. The first page was dated two months before Mia vanished. Names. Amounts. Interest rates. Some were crossed out. Most weren't.

"She owed you."

"She owed everyone." Sienna's mouth tightened. "I was just stupid enough to think she'd pay me back."

I flipped through the pages. Fifteen names became twenty, then thirty. The numbers climbed into six figures.

"You're lying."

"Am I?" She stood and walked toward the dark gallery windows. "Your sister came to me because I move money people don't want found. She needed a clean way out of the country. I gave her one.