“You have a vacated felony conviction and a sealed record and the only set of eyes I’ve ever met that caught the template before I did.”
“I didn’t catch it. You did.”
“You hesitated on it. In the conference room. I saw you look at the corner before I said anything. You just didn’t trust yourself to say it.”
“I’d like you to start trusting yourself to say it.”
“At what salary?”
“Better than you cook.”
I started in November.
Ortiz & Cooper.
Forensic Financial Investigation.
There’s a drain in the floor of the conference room.
I like it too.
PART 5 — FINAL
The first client who walked through our door after my name went on it was a woman named Teresa.
Fifty-eight. A dry cleaner in Reynoldsburg. Her son had been “helping with the books” for three years and the bank had just called about a line of credit she’d never opened.
