Sterling stared at the folder for a long moment before finally opening it, and Ivy watched something complicated move across his face as he read through page after page of careful, anonymous donations, dated back further than she'd expected, further than the fraud, further than most of what Ivy understood about Julian Vane's public life.

"This is nearly two million dollars," Sterling said slowly, "given away anonymously, over almost twenty years, to pediatric cardiac units specifically. My father never mentioned any of this. Not once, in his entire life."

"Why pediatric cardiac units," Ivy asked quietly, something in the specificity nagging at her.

Delilah's face had gone pale, something old...