“Are you ready for how Chloe will react when the board meeting starts?”

“Chloe made her choice when she helped Brandon alter the corporate registry,” I said.

“I’ll have the deputy county clerk notarize these extra copies before ten,” Vance said.

I left Vance Legal Services at nine fifteen and drove straight to the bank downtown.

Greg Miller met me in the glass conference room on the second floor of Ridgefield National Bank.

He had three thick blue folders laid out in a neat line on the mahogany table.