Chapter 3 - Lily Saw Them In The Study
That night, after Lily had been checked by a doctor, Richard asked her one careful question.
“What did you see in my study?”
Lily looked at Sarah first.
Sarah nodded.
“You can tell Grandpa.”
Lily said she had gone inside looking for tape for the birthday present.
The study door was partly open.
Vanessa and Mark were standing near Richard’s desk.
Mark held a stack of papers.
Vanessa had Richard’s old fountain pen.
Lily heard Mark say:
“He signs everything the same way.”
Then Vanessa pressed something onto a page.
A stamp.
Richard knew immediately what she meant.
He kept an embossed signature facsimile in a locked drawer for ceremonial letters and old family foundation materials.
It was not supposed to be used for contracts.
May you like
He checked the drawer.
The stamp was gone.
