(Cole)
Naomi arrived at my office within the hour.
She set the evidence sleeve on my desk and walked me through the chain of custody the same way she always did. Where Lena found it. How it fell. What condition it was in. How many pages. She was thorough and precise and when she finished she left without needing anything else from me.
I opened the evidence sleeve and read through the statement carefully.
Three pages. Eighteen months of charges. Hotels, restaurants, flights, jewelry purchases. All of it on an account in Lena's name that she never opened and never authorized. The total sitting at the bottom of the third page was just over two hundred thousand dollars.
I set it down and looked at the desk.
The wooden box. The photographs. The receipts. The handwritten notes. Evelyn's wi
