And you’re Percival’s wife now.

What reason could you possibly have not to trust us?”

“None at all,” I said softly, and took out a pen.

What none of them read carefully enough — because they were drowning in their own deadlines, and because Fitzroy’s team had negotiated the “minor structural amendments” so quietly — was page eighteen of the final execution set.

The representations of corporate solvency.

The fraud-indemnification clauses.