POV — Catriona
The discrepancy is small.
So small most people would miss it.
A timestamp.
Two minutes.
That’s all.
I’m in Shawn’s office alone, reviewing internal distribution logs for the acquisition brief — the revised one. The controlled-risk version. The one only five executives were authorized to see.
The board memo was scheduled for 10:00 a.m.
It hit an external financial blog at 9:58.
Two minutes early.
Two minutes before official release.
That shouldn’t be possible.
Unless someone sent it.
I don’t react immediately. I don’t assume.
I verify.
Access logs.
Download records.
Forward history.
One anomaly.
The file was opened at 9:41 from an executive terminal.
But the assistant assigned to that terminal was in a compliance meeting across the building.
I check atten
