Lars worked through the night.
Roman came in at six the next morning and Lars was already at the conference table with the shell company map spread across three feet of surface. Color-coded. Annotated in his small precise handwriting. The kind of work that only got produced by someone who had not slept and had not needed to because the problem was holding his attention better than sleep could.
"Walk me through it," Roman said.
Lars walked him through it.
The Montague file had given them the complete structural map. Sixteen shell vehicles across four jurisdictions, ownership chains untangled to their source. Combined with the two associate names from Roman's team, Lars had traced the documentation flow between Aldric's operational vehicles and his legal counsel. That flow was the mechan
