He turned toward his computer.

“Before we discuss anything else, I want to check a financing connection.”

Until that moment, I thought the worst thing I had done that morning was put my marriage into five hundred employees’ notifications.

I had no idea that someone had been trying to move my inheritance thirty-six minutes before I wrote the message.

PART 2 — The Lender I Had Never Connected to Him

My grandfather founded Apex Capital forty-two years earlier in downtown Baltimore.