VIVIAN

I napped for all of fifteen minutes. I was beyond exhausted at this point, existing in an in-between state where I was both sluggish and alert. I paced around the guest room, mulling everything over.

The missing money. Molly. The Azure Cartel. Something big was going on, but what?

What if Blue Cloud Financial was in on it? What if they knew about the missing funds and took Molly to keep everything hush-hush? If word got out that Blue Cloud Financial was laundering money on behalf of a dangerous criminal organization, that’d drive the company’s reputation into the ground.

A part of me didn’t want to believe it. It...