Chapter 5 — Pull the Deed

I called my assistant.

“Rachel,” I said, watching the keypad glow its stupid red light.

“Pull the deed.

Then call Andrew Parker and ask whether his cash buyer is still interested.”

There was a silence on the line, the pause of a person who has understood something faster than she expected to.

“The Brookhaven property?” she asked, carefully.

“Yes,” I said.