Alle Kapitel von IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME: Kapitel 101 – Kapitel 110

POV: MadelineI did not want to like Clara Voss.That would have been the simpler version of this: a woman who came into Crawford's orbit under false pretences and used the trust of people I cared about to extract information for someone who intended to use it against my father's name in an appellate court. A clean antagonist. A function in Elspeth Vane's operation and nothing more.She came in on a Monday morning.Not under arrest. Not summoned by any legal mechanism. I had called her directly, which I had thought about for two days before deciding it was the right approach, because the way you asked someone in was a statement about what you expected from them.She sat across from me at the Crawford table, and she looked the way I had not expected her to look, which was tired in a way that had nothing to do with the journey to Dublin and everything to do with something she had been carrying for a long time."You know why you are here," I said."Yes," she said."I want you to tell me

POV: MadelineThe conversation happened on a Thursday evening in March.Not planned. Not the kind of conversation you can plan. The kind that arrives in the space between the end of one thing and the beginning of the next, when there is nothing immediately urgent demanding attention and the quiet that results is not comfortable the way comfortable quiet is, but something more exposed.Jeremy had made dinner, and we had eaten it and cleared the table, and he had made tea, and we were sitting with it, and the apartment was quiet, and Dublin was doing its Thursday evening thing outside the window, and I was looking at nothing in particular when I realised I did not know what I was about to do next.Not tomorrow. Not the Marcus Voss case review or the Greenvale tracking or the February assessments still in the pipeline. Those I knew. I meant in the larger sense. The sense of direction that I had not been without since I walked out of Riverside Correctional and understood that I had someth

POV: MadelineI found the answer on a Wednesday morning.Not from a conversation or a document or a revelation. From the work itself.I was reviewing the intake file for a case Sol had flagged the previous week, a referral that had come through the Crawford Method training channel, a woman named Yuki Tanaka who had attended the third cohort of the training in Tokyo and who had sent a message to the Tokyo contact point established through Dara's Asia-Pacific network seven weeks ago.The message said: I attended the training in November. I have been keeping records for four years. I did not know what they were for until I sat in that room and understood. I would like to talk to someone.Four years of records.She did not know what they were for until she sat in that room and understood.I read the intake file Sol had assembled from his initial conversation with her. The details. The firm in Tokyo. The account irregularities. The internal report she had filed and the response she had rec

Jeremy's POVThe Greenvale proceeds trace came back on a Tuesday morning, and I read it in my car outside the Whitman Holdings building because I had been driving to a meeting, and the FCA request had arrived while I was in traffic.d I had pulled over at the first available space and read it on my phone.Three accounts.The first was in the Cayman Islands, a holding account connected to one of the Vane network entities we had already identified.The second was in Luxembourg, an account I did not recognise but that Sol confirmed when I called him was connected to one of the seventeen unresolved entities from Priya's original list.The third was in Tokyo.I sat in my car in a side street in London and looked at the Tokyo account number and thought about what it meant that eleven percent of Whitman Holdings had been accumulated and then liquidated and the proceeds had flowed, in part, to Tokyo.Greenvale had not been primarily a destabilisation attempt against Whitman Holdings.It had be

POV: MadelineApproaching Patricia Hearne required the kind of precision that made the previous year's approach to Doyle look straightforward.Doyle had been old, had confessed voluntarily, and had sent a message asking not to be looked at. Hearne was sixty-one, professionally active, in a senior regulatory role with twenty years of institutional knowledge, and we had nothing on her yet beyond a shared employer from twenty-five years ago and a pattern of stalled investigations that could have other explanations.I sat with Donovan, Jeremy, and the Whitman Holdings legal team in a conference room in London on a Thursday, and we worked through the options."We cannot approach the FCA directly," Donovan said. "Any formal contact that reaches Hearne's division before we understand her role allows her to manage the evidence.""We cannot approach her personally," I said. "For the same reason.""We cannot ask the FCA's internal audit function to investigate a specific person without grounds,