I copied the transaction receipt number into my notebook, pressing my thumb to the inside of my wrist as I worked out what was left in my private account.

By noon the software download link was in my personal inbox.

I loaded the digital spreadsheet files Grant had allowed Richard Hale to send over three days before.

The software flagged eighteen recurring monthly wires from Holloway Real Estate labeled regional administrative overhead.

Each wire was for exactly four thousand five hundred dollars.

Every one of those transfers had been routed through Hartford Commercial Bank on Main Street.

I phoned the family court clerk to confirm the requirements for a self-represented subpoena of commercial banking records.