Paulo found the leak in six days.
It wasn't where any of them had expected it — not inside the board, not from Daniel Rodrigues directly. It came from the hotel itself. The meeting room where the board conversations had taken place in September, where she'd sat across from nine members and spoken clearly, had also hosted an event three weeks later in which a Mendes Holdings subsidiary had been a conference participant. The hotel's electronic access logs, through a chain of access that Paulo described in his characteristic short sentences as circuitous but traceable, had been obtained by a third party and cross-referenced with the board meeting date. Daniel Rodrigues's name had appeared in the hotel's guest log from the same week — he'd stayed there, in a different context — and the cross-
