Chapter 6: The Company Behind My Name
I read know him?"" I asked.
"No.""
"Then what?""
He turned the screen toward me.
A photograph of the transfer record three times.
The numbers didn't change.
Neither did the name.
C. BENNETT HOLDINGS a silver-haired man in a tailored suit filled the display.
Beneath it was a business article LLC.
"Claire owns part of Stanton Development?""
Richard Vale folded his hands.
"Through a holding company.""
"That's impossible.""
"It isn't.""
"I work for Stanton.""
"I know.""
"I've worked there eleven years.""
"I know.""
".
Daniel Mercer.
Founder and managing partner of Hawthorne Strategic Holdings.
But Evan wasn't pointing at theWho sold her the shares?""
Richard looked at David.
David looked away.
That title.
He was pointing at the photograph.
"Look at him.""
I did.
Then I understood.
I'd seen Daniel Mercer before.
Not in a told me enough.
"Who?""
Richard answered.
" business magazine.
Not at work.
He was the manGregory Stanton.""
My boss.
My mentor.
The man who had hired standing beside Claire in a framed photograph at her father's me when I was twenty-eight and newly married.
Greg Stanton had attended funeral twelve years ago.
May you like
The man she'd introduced to me with three simple words.
"My father's brother.""
