Semua Bab Married To The Devil I Betrayed: Bab 151 - Bab 160

Lucian did not reply to the message.He read it once more, locked his phone, and slipped it into his pocket.“Someone wants us to confront Victor,” he said.“Someone wants us to believe Victor was paid to leave something behind,” Elena corrected. “Those aren't necessarily the same thing.”He looked at her. “You think the message is a lie?”“I think the person who sent it knows what we found. That doesn't make everything they say true.”Anton, who had been reviewing the depository's paperwork in the front passenger seat, turned around.“She has a point. We have a genuine withdrawal record. We don't yet have evidence of a payment, an agreement, or what Victor collected.”“Then we start with the records we can verify,” Nora said. “The depository has already agreed to search for the underlying authorization. We should ask whether the original inventory still exists.”“Do that,” Lucian said. “And don't mention the message.”Nora was already making the call.Elena settled back in her seat.

Evelyn had asked for ten minutes.Twenty had passed.The others had gradually stopped pretending not to watch her. Richard stood beside the window with his hands in his pockets. Anton had reopened the authorization file, though he hadn't turned a page. Nora was still at her laptop, searching the reference number against the records she had already collected.Elena sat across from her mother.“You said you'd tell us when you remembered.”“I said I would tell you when I remembered exactly where I'd seen it.”“And have you?”Evelyn turned the document over, as if the back might offer a kinder answer.“Yes.”Richard left the window.“Then tell us.”Evelyn looked at him. “You make that sound very simple.”“I'm not asking you to confess to a crime.”“No. You're asking me to explain a decision I made when neither of us knew whom we could trust.”“I was your husband.”“And you were Richard Hart, the man everyone expected to know what was happening inside his own company.”His mouth tightened.

Nora found the discrepancy at 11:17 on a Tuesday morning.She knew the time because she had just set a reminder to collect lunch when the old transfer register opened on her screen and showed her something that had been hiding in plain sight.“Anton, I need you to look at this.”He came over with a file tucked beneath his arm.“What have you found?”“The replacement reference. It appears in the index, the revised inventory, and the custody record. But the three documents don't describe the same event.”Anton set down his file.“Show me.”Nora brought up the entries side by side.The first recorded the original review schedule as an attachment to the Hart-Moretti merger agreement. The second marked that schedule as superseded and substituted a different reference. The third, prepared later, recorded the review condition as satisfied.Anton read the entries without speaking.“Where's the record connecting the second entry to the third?”“That's what I've been looking for. There isn't on

Nora called at 8:17 the following morning.Lucian answered before the second ring.“I found the route.”He glanced at the clock. “Good morning to you too.”“Good morning. I found the route, and I think you should come in.”“Is it the authorisation?”“Part of it. The rest is something I don't want to explain over the phone.”Lucian was already reaching for his jacket. “I'll be there.”He found Elena in the kitchen, trying to persuade Eli that breakfast was not an optional activity.“I'm going to the office,” he told her.Eli looked up from his toast. “Again?”“I'm afraid so.”“You said you would help me with the car.”Lucian stopped.Elena looked at him over her cup. She didn't say anything, but the expression on her face made it clear she was waiting to see what he would do.“I said I would help you after breakfast,” Lucian replied.“You're going now.”“I haven't left yet.”Eli considered this. “That's true.”Lucian checked his watch. “I'll have time to help you before I go.”Eli's fa

The document remained on the table long after the records officer had finished explaining the conditions of its custody.Nobody seemed particularly interested in leaving.Nora had photographed the permitted pages and was comparing the wording with the earlier register. Anton was making notes in the margin of his legal pad. Richard sat beside Evelyn, reading the amendment again.Elena stood behind Lucian.“The authority was never transferred,” she said. “Only the name attached to it was changed.”Lucian looked at the document.“Which means someone could inherit the power without formally inheriting the position.”“Or the position was never attached to a particular person,” Anton replied. “We need to be careful. The wording establishes that the authority survived the agreement. It doesn't tell us how the name was changed.”Nora turned her laptop towards them.“There's another problem. The page we have refers to an amendment, but the amendment itself refers to an attached schedule. That