“I’m not freezing anything yet,” I said.

“I’m auditing the secondary guarantee filed under my late father’s company tax ID number.”

Greg typed six keystrokes into his terminal, then stopped.

He squinted at the screen, his fingers hovering over the plastic keyboard.

“Brandon Vance submitted a preliminary collateral pledge six weeks ago,” Greg said.

“On what asset, exactly?” I asked.

“The seventeen-million-dollar lakefront estate on Lake Anne,” Greg said.

“He listed the entire residential parcel as the main security for a commercial draw.”