It took Elena three days of quiet, careful reading before she found the second thing that didn't sit right.
She had started keeping her own system for going through the old records, nothing complicated, just a notebook where she wrote down dates, names, and anything that felt slightly off, the way a person writes down a strange noise in a house even before they know what's causing it. Alexander had given her free access to the files after that first discovery, though he still checked her notes most evenings, still reviewed everything twice like he didn't fully trust anyone's eyes but his own, including hers.
She was going through a stack of shipping and supply contracts from the year before the accident when she found it, a payment record for a shipment that didn't match anything else in
