Who Talked

“The access logs alone wouldn’t have been enough to say it out loud in a board meeting.” Kapoor slid two printouts across the small conference table, unhurried as always, though something in her precision this morning had an edge that hadn’t been there before. “Marcus Voss’s login touched the Alcazar working files fourteen times in the ten days before the leak — more than anyone in the building except you and me, and neither of us gave that file to the press. On its own, that’s access, not proof. This is proof.”

She turned the second page around. An email, pulled from the archive server Desmond had finally located weeks ago, dated two years before Nora had ever walked into this building — Voss, writing to a since-departed compliance officer about Southline, arguing against closing the entity. The true-up mechanism, absent supporting documentation, is a legacy structure and closing it…