The audit took four days and turned the Rossi household into something tighter, quieter, and considerably more watchful than Aria had yet experienced.
Every staff member was interviewed individually by Marco in the small office off the security wing, a process Aria observed only in its peripheral effects: Mrs. Fenn emerging from her session with her mouth set in a thin, offended line, the kitchen staff speaking to each other in lower voices than usual, the guards rotating through their shifts with a new and visible tension in their shoulders.
Aria herself was interviewed on the second day.
She had expected this, and she sat across from Marco in the small office with the particular calm of someone who had nothing to hide and had decided not to perform innocence, since performed innocence
