Chapter 26
Avery's POV
The Sterling ledger was not one book. It was a system.
Accounts.
Approvals.
Vendor codes.
Archived emails.
Internal routing notes.
Exactly the kind of thing Richard had spent years trusting nobody outside his circle to understand. Now
Chapter 27
Avery's POV
The deletions started at 6:04 P.M. By 6:11, the forensic team had counted forty-three. By 6:19, someone had tried to wipe an entire folder from Richard's executive archive. And by 6:27, nobody in the room was pretending it was an accident. My a
Chapter 28
Avery's POV
I was not allowed in Marcus Reed's interview.
Good.
I did not want him talking to me. I wanted him talking to people who could use the answer. My attorney sat with me in a separate room while investigators questioned him down the hall. Maya had offere