The fallout from Ashworth's confession moved through the financial world with the particular speed of scandal among people who'd spent years pretending to respect each other — swift, thorough, and utterly without mercy once the first domino fell. Within a week, Callum Ashworth had lost his company, his reputation, and most of the fortune he'd built on a fraud twelve years buried. He didn't go to prison. Damon had kept his word about that much, though Wren suspected it cost him more than he admitted to let Ashworth keep even that small mercy.
"You could have ruined him completely," she said, a week later, back at Fenwick Lodge with the snow finally, properly melting from the driveway, the world outside the windows green and impossible after so many days of white. "You had everything you needed to see him prosecuted."
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