So I did the correct thing, the thing my training told me to do.

Before I went to Flynn, before I went to anyone, I took what I had found to the chief financial officer.

To Fiona Vance.

And I walked straight into a trap that had been waiting for me.

Fiona was not surprised by what I had found, because Fiona had built it.

And she had already prepared a second, deeper layer of forgery — a falsified digital trail that made it appear beyond doubt that Flynn himself had personally directed the entire theft.