Fraud had occurred.

Fraud had occurred fourteen times over.

Which meant that at midnight, in a matter of minutes, I would possess the full and lawful authority to remove Preston as chief executive, freeze every corporate transfer, demand immediate repayment of the entire loan, and hand the forged documents bearing my counterfeited signature directly to federal prosecutors.

He had built the weapon that would destroy him, clause by clause, and handed it to me, and never once read what it said.

Chapter 10 — Free to Leave