Ian's POV
"The gap is four months."
Greyson's voice was the same as it always was, flat, unhurried and stripped of everything except information.
I'd paid enough over the years to know that tone wasn't indifference. It was precision.
"What kind of gap?" I asked.
"The kind somebody made." A pause, followed by the sound of paper. "Elara Rhodes didn't exist before March of the year SM Group was registered. No university records, no tax history, no prior employment, no digital footprint. She arrives on paper exactly three months before the company files. Everything before that — nothing."
I didn't respond.
"The seed investment came from a David Sullivan. Australian Billionaire. He comes from old money and is legitimate. With a clean record too. He's been her primary backer since the b
