“Who is it?” Bernadette whispered, her head turned toward the hallway.

“I don’t know,” I said. “But they just sent me the password.”

I turned back to the monitor and typed the characters into the red prompt box.

My fingers hovered over the enter key for a second.

I pressed it.

The red warning disappeared, replaced by a spinning blue circle.

A moment later, the database opened, revealing a long index of restricted files.

“It worked,” I whispered.

“Hurry,” Bernadette said, her voice tight. “The night supervisor does her rounds in ten minutes.”

I clicked on the folder labeled *Internal Audits – Pharmacy and Procurement*.

I scrolled down to the dates matching the last fiscal year of the Harborview Children’s Charity Fund.

My eyes scanned the columns of numbers.

There were two sets of books.

The first set showed the public donations, totaling nearly three million dollars, intended for specialized pediatric oncology treatments and equipment.

The second set, marked *Internal Allocations*, showed where that money had actually gone.

Large sums had been transferred to a private consulting firm listed as Bell & Associates.