Outside, a car moved slowly past the house.

I held my breath until its taillights disappeared.

PART 12

The financial picture sharpened in the following weeks.

Grace obtained orders for targeted disclosures and coordinated with a forensic specialist, Martin Cho, who had no connection to my earlier work.

Martin checked the transaction trail without treating my assumptions as findings.

He questioned my categories and asked for independent confirmation wherever possible.

The forty-two transfers were real.