“That’s one possibility. We need the original invoices and the audit trail before we can say more.”
The facts remained incomplete, but they had begun to arrange themselves into a troubling pattern.
Olivia had not invented the account.
She had not needed to.
The account had already carried the appearance of purpose and approval, created by a man who had
helped people quietly and then left his son to inherit the system.
“What will happen if you prove she misused it?” I asked.
“That depends on the company’s review and the amounts involved. For now, we are preserving the
records and asking for a full accounting.”
I thought of the necklace, the apartment, the watch, and the way Olivia had let me believe Alexander had chosen each gift himself.
“Could she have been trying to make me think he was choosing her?”
Daniel paused.
“It’s possible she wanted the gifts to appear personal. But motive is harder to establish than the
