What Daddy Left Behind
"Henderson. Give her the papers. Now."
Mr. Henderson stepped forward, the heels of his shoes practically silent on the marble. He looked nervous, a thin sheen of sweat glowing on his forehead under the harsh lights. He wasn't a mobster; he was a white-collar litigator, and the situation was rapidly devolving from a sanitized legal theft into a messy, violent hostage situation.
"Miss Mercer, please," Henderson urged, his voice tight as he bent down to retrieve the thick stack of white legal documents I had dropped on the floor. He straightened up, holding them out to me. "We do not have to draw this out. If you simply review the clauses..."
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