She warned me not to spend money from accounts I could not establish a lawful right to use and not to confront Gary.

Then she opened the first invoice in my folder.

“Where did you get this?”

“From the packet Dennis handed me before his meeting with the investors.

He told me to review it and then blamed me when the contract collapsed.”

She set it beside an earlier version.

The cost of a refrigeration retrofit had increased from fourteen million to twenty-three million dollars.

The increase wasn’t just excessive; it had been inserted after the outside engineers signed their certification.