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AFTER A LONG and tense silence, Braedon shoved a pile of books across the table to Mikandra. “I want these two accounts checked.” He went on to explain in a low voice that they kept one account for each of their large clients, and a running account for business payments. There were always a lot of interaccount transfers. Apparently, the accountant had admitted to the fact that the books didn’t balance and that the running account had been bleeding money in undisclosed small payments.
“We need to find this money. Or any money. Iztho has so many accounts set up that it’s impossible to trace where the missing amount went. We are looking for any accounts that we didn’t already know about, particularly personal ones, because we can still access those and we might be able to scrape enough to
