My evidence receipt was signed, sealed, and placed in the court file before I left the building.
Outside, the afternoon air felt colder than it had that morning.
I stood on the courthouse steps and opened my phone.
There was one new message.
It came from an unfamiliar number.
The message contained only a photograph.
I opened it.
The image showed a transfer authorization from an account belonging to Ellison Precision Systems.
The date was seven years old.
The amount was forty-eight thousand dollars.
And beneath the transaction appeared a digital approval bearing my name.
I stared at the screen until the words blurred.
I had never authorized that transfer.
But the approval was dated three days before I had ever seen the company’s supplier contract.
Then another message arrived.
This one contained a single sentence.
“Ask Andrew who had access to his office after midnight.”
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