“Whoever processed this request works in the county archive division.”

It was the very same clerk who had received the forty-five-thousand-dollar wire transfer.

Patrick had paid for direct access to my life long before I’d ever heard his name.

I shut the folder and slid it back across the table.

Arthur moved us over to his main desk by the front of the office.

He brought up the state corporate registry on his computer screen.

The keyboard clattered loudly as he entered the nine-digit registration number for Sterling Capital.