#LENA He is already at the table when I arrive. Small place off campus. Not Common Grounds. Somewhere without Westbrook eyes, which tells me he thought about the location before he suggested it. He has two coffees and a closed notebook and the look of someone who has been sitting with something heavy long enough that it has started to show on his face. I sit down. I do not touch the coffee yet. "Talk," I say. He opens the notebook. He turns it toward me. Inside are dates, names, numbers, written in his handwriting but clearly copied from something else. Source documents. Things Elena gave him. "The Hale merger," he says, "is not a business arrangement. Not primarily." He taps the first page. "Cassidy's father, Marcus Hale, has been managing a series of investment accounts for the past six years. Accounts that belong to clients who trusted him with significant money. He has been moving funds between those accounts and his own holdings in a pattern that is not legal." I look at t
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