Calla POV
I sat back and thought about that with the deliberateness of someone who needed to keep thinking straight. Ford was the money — the routing, the timing, the transfers. But none of it held together for eleven years without someone who understood exactly where the reporting thresholds were and how to build a structure that stayed under them permanently. Ford moved the money. Briggs made it survivable.
I looked at the ledger excerpt last. It was the most dangerous document in the cache — an actual internal record, not a reconstruction, not a copy of a public filing. Three transfers that did not appear in any version of the accounts I had seen anywhere. Signed off, at the bottom of the page, by the Head of Legal.
Cara had not been building a suspicion. She had been building a case
