THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH
Still, he entered the combination, and the safe opened with a soft mechanical sigh.
Inside was a single leather-bound book, worn soft at the edges, far older than I expected. He set it on the desk carefully, like handling something that might still burn him after all this time.
Ethan stepped forward after a long moment, opening it before my father could hesitate further. The handwriting inside was small, cramped, decades of entries in the same careful hand — dates, names, amounts, brief notations that meant nothing to me at a glance and clearly meant everything to the men who’d built their fortunes around them.