If they could get me detained, they meant to present my absence as proof that I was unfit to oversee my father’s company.

“Don’t let them release it,” I said.

“I’m already on it.

And Harper?”

“Yes?”

“You were right to keep the camera.”

PART 6: THE FIRST BOARD MEETING

By nine-thirty I was in Elaine’s conference room in clean clothes, with the protective support of attorneys and the exhaustion of someone who had lived two days before breakfast.