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Chapter 54: Gerald Marsh
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2026-07-28 02:24:01
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IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME Chapter 66: Wicklow
POV: MadelineDonovan's team went to Wicklow at six in the evening.I was not there. I had no jurisdiction, no official standing, no reason to be present that a court would recognize. I was in the Crawford office with Sol and Dara when the call came through, and I had the phone on speaker, so all three of us heard it at the same time."He was at home," Donovan said. "He answered the door himself. He did not appear surprised.""He knew we were coming," I said."He knew something was coming," she said. "He had a lawyer present within twenty minutes of our arrival, which suggests the lawyer was already on notice.""He prepared," I said."He has been preparing for this possibility for a long time," she said. "There was a fire in the grate when we arrived. Not unusual for October in Wicklow, except that the temperature today was twelve degrees and the fire was considerably larger than the room required.""He was burning things," Sol said."Possibly," Donovan said. "We have the grate conten
IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME Chapter 65: What Dara Found
POV: MadelineFrancis Doyle had been in retirement for eight years.He lived in a house in County Wicklow, forty minutes south of Dublin, with a view of the sea that Dara described, from the photograph she found in a profile piece from four years ago, as the kind of view that cost a very significant amount of money and was probably worth it.He gave occasional lectures at Trinity College on the history of Irish financial markets. He sat on the board of a literacy charity. He had received an honorary doctorate in 2019 that the university had since quietly listed as under review following the opening of the regulatory inquiries.On paper he was precisely what he appeared to be. A retired financier of good standing enjoying the particular comfort of a man who had been successful and was now benefiting from that success in a house with a sea view."He is clean," Sol said at the Thursday morning meeting, with the tone of someone delivering a finding he was not satisfied with. "On paper. Ev
IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME Chapter 64: Gerald Marsh in Person
POV: MadelineGerald Marsh was not what I expected.I had built a picture of him from documents and photographs and the account of a man who had sat across from him at a board table for three years, and the picture I had built was of someone large, authoritative, the kind of presence that fills a room because it has learned to.The man who walked into the Dublin Crawford office on a Tuesday afternoon with his lawyer Cormac Whelan was slight and quiet and moved with an economy of motion that I associated with people who had spent a long time not wanting to be the most visible person in any room.He sat down.He looked at me.He did not look at Sol, who was at the table. He did not look at Dara, who was at the window. He looked at me with the particular directness of someone who had done enough research to understand who in the room was the person he was actually speaking to."Miss Crawford," he said."Mr. Marsh," I said. "You asked for this meeting.""My client requested the opportunit
IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME Chapter 63: Breathing
POV: MadelineI came home at eight.Jeremy had cooked, which he did with the particular focused attention of someone who had decided that cooking was a domain in which he was going to become competent regardless of the evidence to the contrary that had accumulated over the preceding months. The kitchen smelled like something that was working out better than usual, which I mentioned, and he said he had called his mother for the recipe, which stopped me mid-step."You called Eleanor," I said."She is a very good cook," he said. "It seemed wasteful not to use the resource."I sat down at the table."How is she?" I said."Quieter than she used to be," he said, putting a plate in front of me. "She has started volunteering at a legal advice clinic. Pro bono. She says it is the most useful thing she has ever done, which I believe is true and also the most honest thing she has ever said about herself.""Eleanor Whitman doing pro bono legal advice," I said."Eleanor Whitman has a great deal of
IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME Chapter 62: The Name Paul Heard
Jeremy's POVI was at the apartment when Madeline called.Not our usual working call, the quick update between meetings with specific information delivered in the fewest possible words. This one began with a silence that lasted three seconds, which from Madeline was its own kind of information."Tell me," I said."Paul Egan heard a name," she said. "Three years ago, on a phone call through a door that was not fully closed. A name he was not supposed to hear, delivered by the Aldbrook director who was managing the compliance cover on Marsh's behalf.""And," I said."The name is not Marsh," she said.I sat down."The Marshfield Capital structure," she said. "Twenty-three entities across five jurisdictions. We have been treating it as Marsh's operation, built from his commission of the Soo methodology nine years ago. But what if Marsh was not the principal?""What if Marsh was the visible layer," I said."The face," she said. "The same way Vivienne was the face of the Whitman affair. The
IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME Chapter 61: The Supervisor
POV: Roisin CallahanHis name was Paul Egan, and he had managed the compliance division at Aldbrook Financial for six years, which meant he had been there for five of the nine years the unauthorized access had been running through the accounts he was supposed to be overseeing.I had worked under him for four of those years.I had liked him, which was the thing I had been trying to reconcile since the morning Madeline called me to say he had resigned effective immediately. I had liked Paul Egan. He was thorough and fair and had a habit of knocking twice before coming into a shared office space that I had always appreciated more than I said out loud. He had given me my first promotion, written the recommendation that got me the senior accounts manager role, sat across from me at the internal interview and told me afterward that the panel's decision had taken less than three minutes.He had also received my internal flag on a Tuesday morning and told me the transaction appeared to be wit
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