The invoice had been sent to the company, not to Alexander’s home.
A note from Olivia said the item was a personal recognition gift and should be charged to the same internal account.
There was no message from Alexander.
There was no instruction from him to buy it.
On another page, a line from a jewelry invoice matched the necklace from the auction.
The payment had gone through a company account several weeks before the event.
A handwritten note in the margin said the expenditure had been approved for the charity auction.
I sat back in my chair, unable to make the pieces fit.
Alexander had raised the paddle himself.
He had stood before hundreds of people and placed the necklace around Olivia’s neck.
Whatever had happened before the auction, he had made that choice in front of me.
But the apartment payments and the watch, the gifts he had told me were his decisions, might not have
