“He took money from twenty working people to cover his own fraud, and he left the rest of us with nothing!”

“Is that true?” Nancy asked from behind the register, her right hand frozen over the store phone.

“Every word,” Greg said, stepping closer to look at the papers scattered on the floor.

“He had a phony corporate entity set up over the state line.

I lost fourteen thousand dollars of my pension payout thanks to this leech.”

Wyatt shifted his weight, holding David up in the air without one tremor in his shoulder.

He looked down at me on the floor.