Chapter 10 - REBUILDING THE FOUNDATION
Over the next year, my life transformed. With the Reyes nightmare behind me, I decided to channel my expertise in financial forensics into something meaningful. I opened my own boutique auditing firm, specializing in detecting corporate fraud and protecting vulnerable stakeholders. I was good at it. Very good. My first major client was the very charity that Beatriz had tried to rob; I helped them recover a portion of the stolen funds through federal restitution and restructured their accounting protocols to ensure it could never happen again.
My father retired from his job, and my parents spent their days traveling and gardening. The dark cloud that had hung over our family was completely gone.
