Bennett said.

I sat in the guest chair facing her dark mahogany desk.

I took the four certified bank packets out of my purse and laid them side by side in the middle of her blotter.

“Seth came by the loading dock at noon,” Dr.

Bennett said, sitting down behind her desk.

“He dropped off a box of pastries for the staff and asked whether you’d turned in your official resignation yet.”

“I didn’t resign,” I said.