Chapter 12 · free to read
Five weeks of forensic work, eleven thousand transactions, four independent reviewers. The report was ninety-one pages long and it took the plot about four seconds to make it say the right thing.
Findings: unauthorised alteration of the acquisition ledger. Responsible party: the executive secretary. Recommended action: immediate termination and referral. Exactly as printed, five weeks early, in a document I helped compile.
She didn't even turn around. Winning, for her, had stopped being a scene worth attending.
In the novel he signs it in a single sentence and then looks out of the window. It is chapter twelve's entire emotional content.
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