refused the money.
The security footage still existed.
And the machine he blamed on me was about to fail again.
PART 3 — THE WOMAN THEY TRIED TO BUY
Grant appeared outside my apartment the night I received the lawsuit.
He stood in the hallway wearing a dark coat and the expression he once used before asking me to solve an impossible corporate crisis.
“Withdraw the FDA complaint,” he said. “Meridian will dismiss the lawsuit and release your money.”
“So the lawsuit is leverage.”
“It is protection.”
“For whom?”
“For two
