“Standard procedure is a seventy-two-hour freeze.”

“I understand.

I want to see where the next attempt comes from.”

Denise wrote a line in her log in red pen and pushed a stamped copy back through.

“It’s your call.

I’m noting it in the file, Miss Whitfield.”

I drove to the far end of the lot and shut off the engine.

Three tries in four minutes meant someone at a keyboard who knew the right security questions but not the right answers.