I wrote her name at the top of the fourth tab and left it there.

Liam had his reading glasses on when I walked in at five thirty, and the binder under my arm was heavier than it looked.

He went through it page by page, sliding each sheet across with one finger.

“Thirty pages in all,” he said.

“Thirty-one, if you count the totals page.”

“The board meets at nine for its regular session.

I can call an emergency hearing under the estate’s proxy rights, but I have to file the notice tonight.” He said tonight the way a man says something he has already decided.