The CEO and Her Daughter's Secret Father novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Account
I stood at the gate with the foreclosure notice in my hand and read it twice.
Sale of all real and personal property, Monday, ten a.m., on the courthouse steps.
"Jefa," the foreman said. "What do we do?"
"Keep the gate. Keep the lights on. Nobody signs anything."
"And you?"
"I'm taking a man to San Antonio."
The federal building has a revolving door and a metal detector and a guard with a clipboard.
Joaquin stopped at the desk with the field book in a canvas grocery bag and his cap in his left hand.
"Name?" the guard said.
"Joaquin Serrano."
He printed it on the visitor sheet in the same block letters that had once told me to lock a motel door.
The guard looked at the line and then at him, and the pen in his hand went still.
"Take a seat, sir."
"I'd rather stand."
Upstairs we were met by a woman in a grey suit, an assistant United States attorney.
With her was a man in a tweed jacket from the FBI.
My father's old lawyer arrived out of breath at the elevator and took the chair beside mine.
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