POV: Iris Hartwell
$847,000 transferred on November 13th to an account under the name Meridian Holdings LLC.
Iris stared at the number until it stopped meaning anything.
She'd been back in the assistant's office when she shouldn't have been. Julian had a meeting downtown. She'd calculated he wouldn't return for at least four hours. Enough time to do what she'd already done once, but more carefully this time. Enough time to dig deeper than the emails and calendar entries that had yielded only fragments.
The financial records were easier to access than she'd expected. A folder buried in the cloud system labeled simply "Operations." Inside, spreadsheets cataloging months of transfers. Most were legitimately labeled,acquisitions, consulting fees, holdings management. But one line stood out because it deviated from the pattern.
Meridian Holdings. November 13th. $847,000.
