“For what?”

“Kidnapping,” Michael said.

“Ethan cashed in his weekly golf-game favor with the department at four o’clock on the dot.

He swore under oath that you broke through his front door and carried Emily off by force.”

“He’s trying to nail down the local legal position before we make a move,” Richard said.

“It gets worse,” Michael said, pulling a folded memo out of his coat pocket.

“Ethan filed an emergency civil injunction through his company’s corporate counsel.