Travel a lot for a “marketing” job? Yes.
Get irritated when I asked too many follow-ups? Yes.
I had filed all of it under marriage. Stress. Privacy. Adulthood. Reasonable things.
Reynolds stripped the reason out of it.
Sarah wasn’t a marketing executive. She was moving money for a criminal network. Dirty money into clean channels. Accounts, shell companies, timed transfers, fake paperwork. She was good at it. Quiet enough. Smart enough. Respectable enough on the surface.
My marriage helped.
Stable husband. Predictable life. Suburban house. No scandal. No noise.
Perfect cover.
Then Reynolds said the part that gutted me.
She was likely preparing to leave.
Duplicate financial identities. Money shifting. Offshore contingencies. Exit planning.
Not only had she lied to me. She had been getting ready to strip what she could and disappear.
He gave me a choice.
I could walk away and let them build the case without me.
Or I could help.
Either way, I was living with a stranger.
One option kept me blind.
The other made me useful.
I said yes.
For six weeks, I lived with a woman I no longer knew and helped build the case that would destroy her.
That was the hardest part. Not the technical work. The acting.
Reynolds showed me how to install cameras disguised as normal electronics. How to pull files from her laptop. How to leave my phone recording in rooms where she took calls. How to look normal while doing all of it.
I kissed her goodnight and watched recordings of her discussing cash movement with men tied to organized crime reports.
