The most important one.” It was a copy of Crestview’s original corporate charter.

I owned seventy percent of the voting shares.

Mark owned thirty.

My father had insisted on that exact structure, twenty-eight years ago, when he put up the capital that started us. I want my daughter protected, he had told the lawyers then, no matter what happens down the road. I had never once used that majority against Mark, because I had genuinely believed we were partners, that the company was ours, that love and ownership were the same thing.

Over the years, Mark had let the title of Managing Director swell in his mind into something it had never legally been.