According to his statement, Allison said she was “trying to prevent Geoffrey from discovering the real reason their financing had collapsed.”
Patricia looked at me.
“The real reason?”
I kept reading.
The next sentence changed everything.
Allison had told Vane that the restaurant’s losses were not entirely from poor business.
A substantial amount of money had disappeared from one of its accounts.
Money Geoffrey apparently did not know was missing.
And according to Vane, Allison had not said she took it.
She had said someone else had access.
Someone inside the family.
Someone whose name she refused to give.
I closed the laptop slowly.
For the first time since this began, the question was no longer simply whether Allison had forged my signature.
Now there was another question.
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