It was a cash withdrawal of three thousand four hundred dollars at the counter of the Dublin drive-through branch, logged as a subcontractor payment for tile work.

I checked it against the tile supplier’s invoice from that same week in the blue folder.

The supplier had already been paid in full with a direct company check from our main operating account.

I turned to the next ledger page and found four more counter slips marked in Trevor’s loose, slanting handwriting.

By ten fifteen my audit spreadsheet showed seventeen separate cash withdrawals with no supporting records, spread over eighteen months.

Not a single one of those transactions had a matching materials receipt, local permit fee, or signed contractor lien release.