All Chapters of Thirty Days Before Goodbye : Chapter 91

"We need to stop that payment before it goes out."I said it fast, already reaching for my laptop, like moving my hands could somehow speed up a wire transfer that hadn't even happened yet. My mind was already three steps ahead of my body, trying to picture what a stopped payment would even accomplish if we managed it."We can't stop it," Dana said. "It's Margaret's money and Vale's account. We have no legal standing to freeze either one, not yet, not without a judge's order, and I don't have grounds for that order until we can prove the payments are connected to something criminal instead of just strange.""Then what can we do," I said."We can be ready the second it lands," Dana said. "I already have someone monitoring the filing activity around Vale's known accounts. If that third payment triggers anything, a story, a statement, a sudden change in his position on the board, we'll see it fast."Julian had moved to stand behind me, both hands resting on my shoulders now, steady the w