# THOMPSON-HAYES: BLOOD MONEY
## Chapter Twenty-Two — The Name
The name was Lisa Carr.
She had been at Thompson-Hayes for four months — hired two months before Mia's equity was legally confirmed, brought on as an administrative coordinator through a staffing company that Nathan's audit had now connected, through two hops, to Reed & Associates. She sat forty feet from the product team. She had access to internal meeting notes, board communication summaries, and the company's quarterly reporting calendar.
Everything that had appeared in the photograph.
Mia sat with this on Saturday morning. She had not slept entirely through the night — not from anxiety, from the specific restlessness of a problem that had been found and not yet solved, the kind of night where your mind keeps pulling yo
