I read that twice.

Then I searched Bennett Marine. A financial trade item posted three days before my wedding read: BENNETT MARINE CONSIDERS PRIVATE CAPITAL PARTNERSHIP AMID EXPANSION TALKS. It named Hart Strategic as the likely partner.

I had never heard of any partnership. Twenty minutes later, in a county filing database, I found a limited liability company registered six weeks before my wedding: HB Coastal Ventures. Its address matched Hart Strategic’s Los Angeles office.

The listed manager was Daniel. The second authorized representative was someone named Rebecca Lane.

I looked at the photograph of the brunette. Rebecca. The gold letters on the folder had not been H and R. They had been HB. HB Coastal Ventures.

Hart and Bennett.