Page 195 of Lorenzo

I let him read for a moment.

“The payments stop three weeks before Genevieve dies,” I continue. “Then Rachel suddenly starts moving money around.”

“Where?”

“Cash withdrawals. Prepaid cards. A couple of transfers between accounts. Nothing huge individually, but enough that I started wondering whether she was trying to make the original deposits harder to trace.”

“Did she succeed?”

“Obviously not,” I say, a little smugly.

His lips curve slightly.

“I am impressed.”

“You should be. She is a mess.”

I set the plate down again and reach for another document.

“The shell companies, though, are where things get interesting.”

Lorenzo turns another page.

“They share an accountant?”

“No. I thought they might. Different accountants, different registered agents, different mailing addresses.”

“Then what connects them?”

“Money again.”

I slide closer and turn one of the pages toward him.

“Southfield received most of its funding through a holding company called Harbor Peak Management.”

His eyes move over the page.

“Oak Ridge got money from a different company, but when I traced that backward, part of its funding also came through Harbor Peak.”

“And Pitt?”

“Two steps removed, but yes.”

He is quiet.

I pick up my coffee.

“So I started looking at Harbor Peak.”

“And?”

“It used to own several smaller companies. Most of them are gone now.”

I pull out another page.

“But one of them caught my attention.”

I place it in front of him.