The file on Marco's desk contained a single highlighted line and Marco read it three times before he called Damien. The call was at eleven-forty at night. Damien answered on the first ring, which meant he had not been sleeping. Marco said: Meridian Placements has a secondary client relationship with a shell company registered in Cyprus that traces to Carrow operations within three degrees. Silence. Then: Her application was flagged by the agency before she submitted it? Six months prior. The flag was automated: her name returned a hit in a database the shell company maintained. The hit was the Calloway connection to the Bellinis. She didn't apply to Meridian, Marco said. Meridian found her. They headhunted her. They engineered the placement, Marco said. The daycare that closed, the

