Chapter 105

Nora POV

I stare into the empty space where the ledger should be, my pulse loud in my ears, each beat reminding me how quickly everything we built to protect ourselves has crumbled.

David exhales sharply beside me, the sound cutting through the silence. “Someone knew exactly where to look.”

I don’t answer right away. My mind is already racing backward, replaying the contents of the documents we confiscated from Malcolm that day.

I turn to David. “You told me the second key was somewhere no one would ever find it.”

“It was.” His jaw is tight, eyes fixed on the empty box as though it might suddenly produce the ledger if he glares hard enough. “I kept one here. The other is buried under six feet of concrete in a warehouse I bought under a shell company in Jersey. No one knew about that