Adira turned another page, and another director shook his head, and I sat with my hands folded and watched my husband’s company decide, in real time and without my saying a word, that it no longer belonged to him.

Chapter 19 — Section 14-B

“Furthermore,” Adira continued, her voice ringing clear, “under Section 14-B of the Renwick Logistics corporate charter, any executive who engages in a criminal cover-up, gross moral turpitude, or embezzlement of corporate funds forfeits all unvested stock options, severance, and every golden-parachute clause.”

The room understood what that meant.

Conrad had not merely been caught having an affair.

He had been caught converting the company his father-in-law built into a private slush fund for the woman who had assaulted that father-in-law’s daughter — and the charter my father had written, decades earlier, had a clause for exactly this kind of man.