POV: Yessica | Location: Edinburgh
Lewis called back at nine forty-one.
She was at the kitchen table with a cold cup of tea and the specific alertness of a woman who had been sitting in the dark for an hour doing arithmetic she didn't have all the numbers for yet.
"Talk," she said.
"Marcus pulled the Bellamy tender file," Lewis said. "The one from eighteen months ago. The commercial project that went to a competitor on a technicality." A pause. "The technicality was a compliance question raised by Graves two days before the evaluation panel met. A question about Bellamy's project insurance documentation."
"Our documentation was complete," she said.
"I know," he said. "Marcus found the original submission. Everything was in order." A beat. "The question Graves raised referenced a docu
