Officer Davis leaned forward.

“Do you know anything about this document?”

“No,” I replied.

“I never agreed to sell or transfer my business.”

The room seemed to tilt around me.

Dinner was no longer simply an expensive humiliation; it had been a calculated trap to make me feel small, indebted, and desperate enough to sign away my company.

I pressed my palm against the table.

“There’s something else,” I said, showing the officer the pending bank transfer on my phone.