“I want you to be careful about what you assume,” he said. “We’ve only received a portion of the
records.”
“I’m not assuming anything,” I said.
“You’ve mentioned that Alexander said he approved the apartment.”
“He did.”
“Some payments were processed through company accounts, and there are corresponding messages between Olivia and the finance office.”
My stomach tightened.
“What kind of messages?”
“Requests for approval, invoices, confirmations. Some of them are incomplete, and I don’t want to read
more into them than they show.”
“Did Alexander approve the gifts?”
“We don’t know yet.”
I stared at the half-finished cradle in the nursery.
“If he didn’t, why would he tell me he did?”
“That’s a question I can’t answer from these pages,” Daniel said. “I’m trying to establish what happened,
not offer a theory.”
He asked whether I would be willing to review the copies he had received.
