THE EVIDENCE
Marcus Chen had worked security for Blackwood Holdings for eleven years, and in that time he had learned to recognize the difference between information and evidence, between suspicion and proof, between the things he knew and the things he could document.
The file on his desk contained things he could document.
He had compiled it at Damien's request, reopening the investigation that had been closed five years ago when Sophia Hart disappeared. The original file had been thin—bank statements, photographs, a witness statement from a competitor's employee who claimed to have seen Sophia passing documents. Thin enough that Marcus had questioned it at the time, but Damien had been in no mood for questioning, and Marcus had learned that his job security depended on knowing when t
