Five vendors had been using those cards for years.

The florist on Grove, the print shop, the courier service, the window washer, and the coffee service.

I had issued them as favors back when my father ran the office.

The coffee service had been his arrangement since 2009.

Now I signed the cancellations, one after another.

Arthur watched my pen.

“You’re throwing away five years of goodwill.”

“I’m throwing away five years of a gate I can’t keep watch over.”