Chapter 35 — The Takeover

Then I turned to the stack of legal documents waiting on the desk.

Ostrander Freight was bleeding out.

Without Dexter’s stolen capital and under the weight of his arrest, the stock had cratered, and the board was desperate for a buyer to stave off bankruptcy.

I picked up the platinum fountain pen Lucinda had given me on my first day in the executive suite, turned to the final page of the acquisition file, and signed my legal name in steady, deliberate strokes. Noor Carrington.

Chapter 36 — The Name Erased