“Let me pay the state fee,” Ethan said, looking straight at Brenda.

Brenda took the cash, opened her register drawer, and dropped the bills into the tray.

She typed the vehicle identification number from our blue folder into her computer.

“I need the former co-owner to sign off on line nine of the green transfer slip,” Brenda said.

She slid the official state form through the narrow gap under the glass partition.

Ethan picked up the pen attached to the counter chain.