PART 4
He called twelve more times.
I answered none of them.
At 6:03, my attorney, Rebecca Shaw, called.
“Did he leave?”
“Yes.”
“With the materials?”
“Yes.”
“Do you have documentation?”
“Photographs, timestamps, security footage, and his airport picture.”
There was a pause.
“He sent you a photograph wearing the stolen jewelry?”
“Chloe is wearing it.”
Rebecca exhaled.
“That was generous of him.”
PART 5
The accounts Daniel thought he had emptied were not actually empty.
They were restricted.
Three weeks earlier, after I discovered the forged authorization,
Sterling Global’s fraud team had placed heightened controls on several
accounts.
Daniel did not know.
Transfers above certain thresholds required secondary approval.
New overseas beneficiaries triggered review.
And the accounts connected to Chloe’s consulting company had already
been flagged.
Daniel had spent weeks moving numbers on screens.
He mistook attempted movement for completed control.
PART 6
The blue folder mattered more.
Daniel believed it contained original voting certificates and documents
