ANSWER THAT DIDN'T EXIST
*Alex's perspective first — then returning to Glande.*
The screen loaded in less than a second.
I stared at the personnel file.
*Name: Glande Bennett.*
*Position: Executive Assistant to the CEO.*
*Employment Date: Two months ago.*
*Previous Employment: Information withheld at applicant's request, verified through confidential references.*
I frowned at that line.
It was not unheard of — people had reasons for keeping previous employers private, particularly when those employers had been difficult, or the parting had been complicated. I had approved exactly this kind of redaction before for other staff without thinking twice about it.
It was unusual.
Not impossible.
But unusual.
I clicked through the remaining sections with the specific methodical atten
