Chapter 7 - The Missing Box Wasn’t Rachel’s
An inventory revealed one missing container.
Not Rachel’s photographs.
Not jewelry.
Company archives.
A gray records box transferred from my old office years earlier.
Vanessa admitted moving it.
She had not destroyed it.
She had placed it in a rented storage unit.
“Why?”
“Because it contained Martin’s files.”
“You found evidence and hid it?”
“I found evidence that could implicate me.”
She gave my attorney the storage information.
Inside were original Northbridge invoices, old ledgers, and
correspondence showing Martin had routed money through several vendors.
Vanessa’s backdated reports were there too.
So were documents suggesting she later tried to stop the scheme.
Rachel had copies of some records.
Not all.
The financial picture became clearer.
Martin had stolen.
Vanessa had committed misconduct early, then become trapped by it.
Rachel discovered the pattern.
And I had been too focused on expansion to notice what was happening
May you like
inside my own company.
That truth belonged to me.
