Veronica stood up instantly, her composure cracking.

“What is the meaning of this?” And Alvin pulled a thick audit file from the briefcase and laid it out on the table, and began, calmly and methodically, to dismantle, piece by piece, the entire structure of the theft.

There was no shouting.

There did not need to be.

The documents did the work, one devastating page at a time.

Chapter 17 — The Ledger