Inside it were months of fraudulent invoices, issued to three shell vendor companies that existed only on paper.

Over three point two million dollars had been siphoned out of Vance Logistics in under a year, disguised as fictitious refrigeration-maintenance fees.

And the shell corporations traced, directly, to Veronica’s own brother-in-law.

She had been robbing the company Mark’s family had built for two generations, for years, hiding it inside exactly the kind of technical maintenance expenses that no one but a determined auditor would ever scrutinize.

And Mark had become a determined auditor.