That was what unsettled him most.

If she had stormed the stage in a rage, he would have known how to react — he could have called her emotional, cited a marital crisis, tried to shrink the whole thing into a private matter.

But Lenore spoke for several minutes and gave him no opening at all.

And then she came to the part that did concern him.

“I’d like to clarify something about one of our most visible investments,” she said.

Crispin’s jaw tightened.