She’d seen news of his suspension in a trade newsletter and wanted to speak with counsel, not with me.

Marian had worked briefly in her father’s office.

She said she’d found the necklace in a safe the week Megan was accused, along with a jeweler’s padded envelope and several receipts.

Her father told her it was being held as evidence.

Later, when she asked why no police report existed, he ordered her to forget it.

“I was twenty-four,” Marian said when we met in Dana’s conference room.

“My father had spent my whole life explaining that Garrett Sullivan’s business paid our bills.