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Chapters (68)
  1. Partner Pursuit
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Chapter One
  6. Chapter Two
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Chapter Four
  9. Chapter Five
  10. Chapter Six
  11. Chapter Seven
  12. Re: Whitaker retirement party
  13. Chapter Nine
  14. Chapter Ten
  15. Chapter Eleven
  16. Chapter Twelve
  17. Chapter Thirteen
  18. Chapter Fourteen
  19. Chapter Fifteen
  20. Chapter Sixteen
  21. Chapter Seventeen
  22. Chapter Eighteen
  23. Chapter Nineteen
  24. Chapter Twenty
  25. Friday, New York City
  26. Chapter Twenty-Two
  27. Chapter Twenty-Three
  28. Chapter Twenty-Four
  29. Chapter Twenty-Five
  30. Chapter Twenty-Six
  31. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  32. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  33. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  34. Chapter Thirty
  35. Chapter Thirty-One
  36. Chapter Thirty-Two
  37. Chapter Thirty-Three
  38. Chapter Thirty-Four
  39. Chapter Thirty-Five
  40. Chapter Thirty-Six
  41. Subject: Deposition of Plaintiff in James case
  42. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  43. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  44. Subject: Mentors Found
  45. Chapter Forty-One
  46. Chapter Forty-Two
  47. Chapter Forty-Three
  48. Chapter Forty-Four
  49. Jake: While you’re stuck at work, think about this: I thought you might want to do a yoga session while I’m surfing in Santa Teresa. Should I book?
  50. Chapter Forty-Six
  51. Chapter Forty-Seven
  52. Chapter Forty-Eight
  53. Chapter Forty-Nine
  54. Chapter Fifty
  55. Chapter Fifty-One
  56. Chapter Fifty-Two
  57. Chapter Fifty-Three
  58. Chapter Fifty-Four
  59. Chapter Fifty-Five
  60. Chapter Fifty-Six
  61. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  62. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  63. Chapter Fifty-Nine
  64. Chapter Sixty
  65. Chapter Sixty-One
  66. About the Author
  67. Acknowledgements
  68. On any top-ten list of best Sunday plans, today’s brunch with my former crush and his new girlfriend would rank number eleven … hundred. Times five. But I couldn’t say no. We’re still friends.

“Maybe, but it’s not ideal. What about between Christmas and New Year’s? Our offices are completely closed that week.”

“I already booked a ticket to visit my mom in France that week. You could come?”

“That’s not quite the romantic getaway for two that I had in mind. Let’s do the second week in December.” Jake looked at the calendar on his phone. “The Christmas rush is mostly before Black Friday. I don’t have anyone releasing any albums on Christmas Day, but I have to start preparing for the top-of-the-year music releases. I can do that week. I may miss some networking opportunities if there are holiday parties, but that’s okay. And the Jingle Balls are the following week. You’ll love those.”

They spent the rest of the dinner deciding where to go on vacation until Audrey said she better get back to work to call Genevieve and Mrs. Rothman, write Hunter and Colette about the find, and call Hunter.

Chapter Forty-Three

Chapter Forty-Three

Hunter swung around in his chair to face Audrey and Colette.

“I asked you both to come to my office to brainstorm our approach given this latest development in the case.” He turned to Audrey. “Thank you, Audrey, for pursuing this lead and finding this documentation. Now that we have Pierre’s consent for discretionary trading, we might even be able to settle without a trial. It eviscerates their case.”

“They may still argue that the trade was inappropriate,” Colette said.

“They’ll have a harder time with that argument. Pierre signed this consent while asking John to buy into a speculative venture in Brazil,” Audrey said. “Not to mention this chart of other risky trades made by Pierre.” She pulled out a chart of Pierre’s trades created by Marcia and Mohan with their outside expert. The expert had rated many of the trades highly risky.

“That’s true. That chart is great work by Marcia and Mohan,” Hunter said. “We needed these documents to win this case.”

“It’s too bad you didn’t find these documents at the beginning,” Colette said.

Audrey’s mouth dropped open. She closed it quickly. She is trying to blame this on me. Jake had called it.

Hunter turned to Colette and said firmly, “Colette, it was your responsibility to find these documents. You were in charge of defensive discovery. Audrey handed that over to you after she did the physical document pull from their offices. We’re incredibly lucky that Mrs. Rothman remembered this trade and that Audrey looked back through the document production log and found this gap. We’re also fortunate that our client is ecstatic right now and not asking why these were not found earlier.” Staring straight at her, he said, “You should have identified that gap in the production and followed up.”

Colette flushed. In the strained silence that followed, Colette stared down at the table.