“What did you do?” Helen asked.
“I refused to sign off on the next quarter’s reconciliation,” Gordon said. “I told her I couldn’t certify the books with an ownership change I couldn’t verify. I told her I’d need documentation.” He swallowed. “Two weeks later, they fired me. Trevor sent a letter. He said they were going in a different direction.”
Helen started working that same day.
She requested certified custody records from the Franklin County jail. Official documents showing exactly where I’d been every day from January to September 2022. She requested every visitor log. Every attorney visit log. Every court transport record.
“If anyone brought you a document to sign in jail,” she said, “there’ll be a record. Lawyers have to sign in. Notaries have to sign in. If there’s nothing on March 14, there’s nothing.”
For the first time, we had something besides my word against theirs.
