Gavin spent two full days cross-referencing Dorian's folder against his own research, emerging from his makeshift war room in the estate's converted library with the particular energy of a man who'd found something worth the sleepless effort.
"There's a name that shows up in both sets of records," he said, spreading printouts across the table for Elena, Alexander, and — newly included in these briefings — Leo, who'd insisted on being part of the process rather than protected from it. "Vivian Marsh. Retired attorney, Connecticut-based. She shows up in a Thorncastle-adjacent filing from over twenty years ago, and separately, in a shell company registration connected to one of the accounts feeding Leo's debt."
"Same person, two decades apart," Alexander said. "That's not coincidence."
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