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So hi to give ive to Gwen Menard

Standing at the , feeling like a prisoner, he reirls a time or two Frasier had been one of their favorites He’d found it boring at best

But there’d been a time when Martin, the ex-cop father of a couple of uppity psychiatrists, had been obsessing over a case he’d failed to solve while on the force As Liaht Martin was nuts But he wouldn’t give up Gradually others started to help him look for clues in the files he had spread all over the table,else

His sons moved the files around on the table And that’s how Martin finally found the clue he’d been ht

Seeing so that wasn’t in the mix before Not a new item, just a new perspective

Liam returned to his Connelly files There was a pile for itee Another pile for those in which only George and his father had been involved And another that involved George and anyone else on the top floor

He rearranged Keeping his father in one pile, George in another But started to split up the files involving other top-floor executives Separating out ones that both George and his father had been involved in

His name came up pretty much never

Until he caotten about—the Schlotsky family A deal he’d handled years before, because he’d been the only executive on the top floor when the brother investors had shown up to close a deal with Donaldson Only top-floor executives had the ability to close deals And the Schlotsky brothers were an important one It had been when Donaldson was out a lot, dealing with his house and trying to figure out a way to prevent the inevitable foreclosure that was going leave him and his family homeless The other man had apparently completely spaced on the appointment While Liam had never actually closed a deal before, he’d witnessed more than a hundred of theood of the company He’d found the file Presented the papers that needed to be signed And had signed his name as an official company representative

A week or so later, it had turned out that soed on the forners—and Lia had been changed He’d stood over the two ned And delivered the papers straight to George, who’d later caught the mistake

His assue, who’d said he’d check into it—had been that Donaldson hadup the papers He’d never heard what Donaldson had to say about the incident George had contacted Liam a day or two later to tell him that the probleain The investors had re-signed papers with the correct figures He’d told Liaaffe

And to Liae, he never had Walter, ould have ripped into hi such a novice mistake, had never mentioned the deal to Liam

So as he looking at his father’s signature as the witnessing representative on the voucher that admitted that this was the second set of forms and that the first had been destroyed? A voucher that had been signed by both investors and their attorney, as well?

He called Gabrielle immediately

MARIE HAD INVITED both Liam and Tanner to share dinner with them