But it opened the door.

And the secondary vendor that had taken the largest suspicious payouts turned out to have a direct corporate link to a close relative of Gertrude’s — the same woman who had set an envelope of cash on my desk.

Chapter 13 — A Tragic Opportunity

Garrett heard all of it without raising his voice, though his knuckles went white on the arms of his chair.

“Preserve every digital artifact,” he said.