His eyes slowly drifted to the blue legal folder beneath his hands.
He opened the cover.
Inside was a series of commercial corporate filings, construction permits, and legal dockets bearing the gold seal of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
At the top of the master corporate registry was the parent company that owned **Kensington Commercial Infrastructure**:
**VANCE-KENSINGTON HOLDINGS LLC — HARRISBURG, PA.**
**MANAGING PARTNER: GARRISON VANCE (51% COMMON EQUITY).**
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**NON-VOTING SILENT SHAREHOLDER: ARTHUR VANCE (49% RETIREMENT TRUST).**
Arthur’s hand began to shake with a slow, terrifying, volcanic tremor.
Garrison Vance.
Arthur’s forty-eight-year-old nephew. The son of his late brother, Richard. The man to whom Arthur had handed the operational management of the firm’s commercial civil engineering contracts after Caroline’s death, believing that family was the safest repository for forty years of labor.
For three years, while Arthur had sat in his silent house in Lititz grieving his wife, Garrison had been cutting safety budgets, defrauding municipal transit authorities, using corporate legal retainers to crush injured stone masons, and buying beachfront villas in Stone Harbor with money stolen from widows’ pockets.
