His business.” “And he needed a hundred and forty thousand dollars of my money to fix it?” “He’s my brother!” “It was my money,” I said.

“Every dollar of it.” And I hung up before he could tell me, one more time, whose it really was.

Chapter 11 — The Envelope

Two days later I went back to the apartment with Claire and a civil escort to collect my clothes and my documents, and Brandon was not there, and as we crossed the lobby the doorman, Mr.

Davis, called me over to his desk.