Chapter 43 · Auntie's Jade Bangle

"That's not a stock certificate." Corazon threw the photocopy down on the folding table between us, right on top of a stack of pillowcases I hadn't finished sorting. "That's a laundry requisition with your mother's name scrawled on the back. You want the board to believe forty percent of this hotel rides on a grocery list?"

"It's not a grocery list." My hands were shaking and I hated that she could see it. "It's the original share transfer. The app never scanned it because the app didn't exist in 1998."

"Convenient." She said the word like it tasted bad. "A paper the system forgot, found by the one maid who happens to need it. You know what that looks like to a lawyer, Lila? Fraud. Clean, simple fraud."

"Then call one. Call your lawyer right now." I didn't move the paper an inch closer to her. "See if he tells you to burn it or file it."

Corazon's mouth went thin.