The note had converted.

I was not a bitter ex-wife with a grievance; I was, as of the settlement, a holder of a meaningful minority stake in a Delaware corporation, in possession of a forensic report indicating that its chief executive had misappropriated company funds.

“You have two options,” Ifeoma said.

“You can sit on it, in which case you will be sitting on knowledge of a fraud against a company you own part of, and if it comes out later that you knew, that is your problem too.

Or you can discharge it to the board and let the board do its job.”