The Unspoken Accord
“William. To what do I owe this… dramatic convocation? If this is about the old business, my lawyers”
“Your lawyers are irrelevant,” William stated, his voice low and final. He nodded to Mimi.
Mimi placed the tablet on the table, turning it to face Thorne. She tapped the screen. It came alive with a digital scan of Tunde’s cloth-bound ledger, the handwriting horrifically familiar. Next to it, a cascade of financial transactions, flowing from a Zurich account labeled ‘VERITAS’ to a shell company, then to another, finally landing in an account tagged ‘J. Bryce – Project Legacy.’ A third window showed the encrypted chat logs between ‘The Benefactor’ and ‘J.B.’