The Cost of Erasing the Woman Who Built Your Entire Empire
We walked past the lawyer and the officer, out into the pouring rain.
A black town car was idling at the curb.
Caleb opened the rear door for us.
As I stepped inside the warm vehicle, my phone buzzed one last time.
It was an email notification.
The sender was Grant.
*You think you won,* the subject line read.
I opened the message.
It was a scanned copy of a document I had never seen before.
It was a deed of transfer for the Maribel project.
And at the bottom was my signature, dated yesterday.
I stared at the screen as the town car pulled away from the curb.
The tires splashed through the deep puddles as we headed toward the harbor.
I looked at the signature on the screen, my heart stopping.
It looked exactly like mine.
But I knew I hadn’t signed anything.
I looked at Diane.
“He forged my name,” I whispered.
“On the master deed.”
Diane leaned closer, her eyes scanning the screen.
“The board meeting is in twenty minutes,” she said, her voice grim.