Then came the condition.

“To activate this bequest, Cecily must formally request an emergency board meeting within seventy-two hours of receiving this document. Failure to act within this window will render this will null and void, and all assets shall transfer per my 2015 testament.”

Seventy-two hours. The deadline would fall at 8:30 p.m. on May 18.

I leaned against the cold wall, the document clutched to my chest. My grandmother had handed me a tool.

Now I had to decide whether I was brave enough to use it.

Jonathan Woods was waiting by the coat check when I came out. “You read it,” he said.