Skepticism still sat like a stone in Nina’s chest. Was Jessa just lucky or misremembering old numbers? To test her, Nina intentionally mentioned a person by the wrong job title. Jessa caught the mistake immediately, gave the correct title, and even described the view from the office window. She was too accurate and too fast to be making all this up.
In a café, Nina opened her laptop. She looked up the orphanage’s public money records. She saw they got two types of funding: one for basic care and one for “long-term” care. Strangely, the money for long-term care stayed exactly the same every year, even when kids left the orphanage. What exactly was “long-term,” if the numbers never moved?