Terminal Lease

Odalys Cabral has read every word of every document she has ever put her name to. Her father taught her that at a kitchen table in Pooler with his hands split open from a long hatch. Now she is the port authority's real estate counsel, responsible for the Santangelo ground lease renewal.The night before the board advertises that renewal, Nico Santangelo puts a single page in front of her and covers it with his hand. Forty days, the length of the public comment period. She says out loud what she wants and he gives it to her, and when the forty days are up she is supposed to walk out of his house with whatever she asked for. She signs it without reading one line.Underneath the lease there is a rider nobody filed, nearly forty years old, paying a monthly sum to a trust with a number instead of a name. What Odalys finds in his desk drawer should send her out of the house. She puts it back and gets into his bed anyway. But the page she signed has consequences Nico never explained, and the risk reaches beyond her career and into her father's kitchen.She can be the woman who reads it, or she can be the one who gets asked about it under oath.Crime erotic thriller. Explicit throughout. Adults only.