Chapter 4

Matthew's wedding was set for the eighth of next month.

For the following month, I moved into the apartment Edward had arranged for me.

During the day, I worked with Edward's team, organizing evidence and analyzing the Puckett Group's financial loopholes.

At night, I would sit by the floor-to-ceiling windows, watching the city lights twinkle outside, listening again and again to Matthew's voice on the recordings.

He once said, "Hailey, I'm asking you to make this sacrifice for me. If you take the fall this time, once the storm passes, I will give you the grand wedding you deserve.

"That…