Walter told me your private household expenses weren’t my concern.”

She opened a file of unresolved vendor queries.

Tiffany’s company had billed us for security assessments, event planning and “reputation protection.” Some charges had been approved through an authorization route Walter controlled.

Several were paid from a property-management account, not the trucking operation itself.

“Can we recover the originals?” I asked.

“They’re preserved in our system.

I haven’t touched them.”

“Good.