“She’ll sell the two commercial properties, because the other option is a courtroom where she’s already lost once.”

I signed the final page and put the pen down.

“You have the deed, the money, and the house,” Arthur said.

“All three of them, by order of the court.”

“I know exactly what I have.”

He capped the pen and slid it to the corner of the desk, which from him was about as close as it got to saying he was pleased.

Then he shut the yellow legal pad and lined it up against the ledger.