PART 6

The envelope came from an outside bookkeeping service that had been contracted by Julian’s company.

Inside was a request to verify a vendor registration bearing my name as a signatory.

I had never heard of the vendor, Mariner Strategic Services.

I showed the paper to Julian over dinner.

He glanced at it for less than a second.

“It’s a filing error,” he said.

“Our accounting department is cleaning up old vendor profiles.”