Alexander answered on the first ring. She heard the quality of his wakefulness and understood he had not been sleeping — had perhaps not been sleeping for several nights with the weight of what he'd been carrying.
"I've seen it," he said before she spoke. "The team flagged it four minutes ago."
"Is it true?" she asked. The name in the article. The connection it drew. "Is it real?"
A pause that told her everything before he said a word.
"Yes," he said. "The man who organized your k********g was a business associate of the offshore trustees' founding chairman. He died in 2009. The connection to someone still living is—" He stopped. "It's a peripheral connection, Lila. A family member of that man, who has had no involvement in this family's affairs and who the article is implicating based
