Broken Women

Chapter 7

Chapter 7Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

Owl Title Company

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

“I just want to move on with my life and be allowed to grieve for Lisa. I can’t do that with so much debt hanging over my head.”

Cross stared at me for a minute but I didn’t back down. “Let’s go in then and get this deal done, then,” he finally said.

Kane, Roger and the male title agent rose as we entered the conference room but I waved them back into their seats.

“Ma’am, gentlemen,” Cross began to address all of those assembled in the room before we were even seated.

I put a hand on his arm to draw his focus back to me and, once I had it, I told him, “I’ve got this.”

Nodding to my two friends Kane and Roger and to the woman, presumably their lawyer, seated to Kane’s right, I jumped right in, “So, you w