That evening, Mabel sat in Damian’s study and read every document in the leather folder in silence.

There were printed email chains.

There were internal bank audits.

And there was, worst of all, a set of things in Arthur Vance’s own hand — instructions to his chief corporate counsel to direct all internal audit focus toward Mabel Sterling; she holds primary administrative access. An internal memo in which Flynn acknowledged the unauthorized withdrawals to his father.

And, on Arthur Vance’s personal stationery, in Arthur Vance’s own careful handwriting, the single most damning sentence Mabel had ever read: Flynn will reimburse the corporate accounts over time.

The discrepancy must remain attributed to the accounting clerk.