Thirty percent of the voting shares, held by the daughter he had spent thirty-two years erasing.

He had made me a shareholder as a footnote to a tax strategy.

He had never once considered what a footnote might do, if it ever decided to read itself.

Chapter 14 — Removed as Chairman

“The board of directors convened two hours ago,” Julian continued, and now, at last, there was something in his voice with an edge to it.

“In light of documented, systemic misuse of corporate capital — which the firm’s counsel has been aware of, and building a record of, for some time — and in light of your public conduct this evening, which a number of your board members happen to have witnessed firsthand, a motion carried.