Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars and a Missing Name on a Ledger

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He did not look up at me, his eyes fixed on a pigeon pecking at a discarded wrapper on the pavement. “Nobody looks at people in plain sight, Lydia.”

“I was told to drop the inquiry,” I said, sitting down on the opposite end of the wooden bench. “I assumed that warning came from your office.”

“It did,” he said, turning his head slowly continue reading …