She recorded the meeting on her phone, nested inside a notebook app Gary would never think to check. He talked for forty minutes about restructuring fees, a new entity he wanted to route payments through, regulatory environments in the EU, and why certain jurisdictions were more flexible. He was never explicit, but I heard exactly what he meant.
The new entity he mentioned was registered in Cyprus. I found it in six hours—Halcyon Partners Ltd, incorporated three months ago, directorship listed under a name I hadn’t seen before. Not Whitfield. Not Harmon. A third name. Martin Gale. Three names. I thought about the sister in Ontario he’d mentioned once and never again. Fat chance she’d be real.