“He knew before my son even bought her a coffee.”

Brenda tapped the yellow marker lines with the tip of her pen.

“The ballroom brings in a twelve-thousand-five-hundred-dollar monthly commercial venue lease fee,” she said.

“Douglas saw that passive income stream.

He knew Kingsley Timber was failing, and he needed a fresh asset to leverage against his creditors.”

I looked at the corporate signature at the bottom of the credit inquiry.

Douglas had signed it himself in blue ink.