supposedly written by her.”
I felt my stomach drop.
“I never wrote a letter like that.”
Celeste’s expression hardened.
“If you turn this into a public scandal, Adrian, the board will destroy you.”
He glanced toward the helicopter.
A professionally dressed woman was walking toward the farmhouse carrying a sealed legal case.
Adrian looked back at his mother.
“That’s why I asked the board’s attorney to come.”
The woman entered my kitchen and closed the door behind her.
She appeared to be in her fifties, with carefully styled hair and
