Chapter 7 - The Harbor Deal Changes Everything
Harbor House was a luxury restaurant group.
For months, Lucas had encouraged me to sell Lumina.
I refused.
Now I learned why.
Lucas had been negotiating privately with Harbor House.
He presented himself as Lumina’s co-owner.
He was not.
He shared internal sales numbers.
Vendor contracts.
Expansion projections.
He even sent them a draft term sheet suggesting he could deliver
majority control.
He could not.
But there was a problem.
One document contained what looked like my electronic signature.
I had never seen it.
Rebecca immediately told me not to accuse anyone of forgery until
metadata was examined.
So we preserved the file.
The metadata showed it had been created on Lucas’s laptop.
My signature image came from a legitimate lease document.
Someone had copied it.
Lucas insisted an assistant prepared the draft and nothing had been
submitted as final.
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Harbor House’s lawyer gave us another answer.
They had received it directly from Lucas.
