I Came Home Early From Columbus and Found a Deed With My Name Signed on It

I took my round magnifying glass out of the top desk drawer and held it over the remitter line.

The remitter was shown as Apex Property Holdings Incorporated.

That was the very same company name as on the four-hundred-dollar title search receipt I’d dug out of the recycling bin outside.

Lauren’s own name didn’t appear anywhere on the check.

I pulled my yellow legal pad closer and copied down the exact wording printed on the purple memo line.

Under Ohio commercial contract law, endorsing a cashier’s check that carries a settlement memo counts as full execution of the contract.

If I signed the back of that check, I wouldn’t be accepting a gift from my sister.