Avery's POV

The Sterling ledger was not one book. It was a system.

Accounts.

Approvals.

Vendor codes.

Archived emails.

Internal routing notes.

Exactly the kind of thing Richard had spent years trusting nobody outside his circle to understand. Now

Avery's POV

The deletions started at 6:04 P.M. By 6:11, the forensic team had counted forty-three. By 6:19, someone had tried to wipe an entire folder from Richard's executive archive. And by 6:27, nobody in the room was pretending it was an accident. My a

Avery's POV

I was not allowed in Marcus Reed's interview.

Good.

I did not want him talking to me. I wanted him talking to people who could use the answer. My attorney sat with me in a separate room while investigators questioned him down the hall. Maya had offere