Chapter 4

Forensic accounting was my profession, and business registration records were public information.

I typed in John's name, and the result came up immediately.

[John Carter. John Hardware Store. Established: September 2006.]

September 2006. I was thrown out in March of that same year. That was a six-month gap.

They had "held onto" my wedding gift money for six months, and then John opened a storefront with 20 thousand in registered capital.

I stared at the number. Thirty thousand dollars in wedding gift money went in, and twenty thousand came back out for the store. So where did the other ten…