She found it by accident.
It was a Thursday evening and she wasn't even looking for it — she'd pulled up Nexara's old founding financial records to prepare documentation for a contract renewal and was moving through the files on autopilot, muscle memory from years of knowing this company's paperwork better than she knew her own bank statements.
And then she stopped.
There was a number that didn't add up.
She leaned closer to her screen and looked at it properly. An early funding contribution from year one — the period she remembered most vividly because every single week of it had felt like walking a tightrope over something she couldn't afford to look at directly. Money had been desperately tight. She'd paid her team before herself for four consecutive months. She'd known the exact ba
