Or I promise you that you are fired as corporate counsel to every one of my companies before I walk out of this terminal, and the last thing you do for my family is explain to a licensing board why.”

Oliver’s eyes cut, for just an instant, toward my mother.

It was a tiny movement, a flinch, a man checking with the person who actually gave him his orders.

But it was all the confirmation I would ever need, and we both knew it the moment it happened.

I reached out and took the folder out of his hands.

He did not really try to stop me.