Sophia spent the rest of the morning inside the Palace archives.
The authorization card Daniel had given her opened doors most advisers never knew existed. Financial records. Government contracts. Investment approvals.
Internal correspondence. Everything connected to the Valenridge recovery program was stored there.
Sophia sat before a large monitor, scrolling through years of financial data.
She wasn't looking for the obvious.
She was looking for the small things.
A payment made too early.
A contract approved too quickly.
A company that appeared once and disappeared. Anything that could connect the altered projections to the financial network she had discovered the night before.
For nearly an hour, she found nothing.
Then she noticed a name.
Hale Strategic Consulting.
Sophia stopped.The company had received several government contracts over the previous three years. Economic analysis.
