Chapter Twelve
I finished reading the complaint for the second time. Melanie had fallen, face down, on the bed and hadn’t moved since we returned to the room.
“It’s thorough,” I said.
Melanie lifted her head from the pillow and looked at me with disgust. “Wonderful. Any more good news?”
“Sorry.” I set the complaint aside. “I know this must be hard, but try not to worry. It’s really the bank they’re after. Of course …”
“What?”
“The bank’s liability depends pretty much on you.”
She groaned. “Well, I never did anything.”
According to the complaint, the plaintiff, a businessman trying to buy property in Prince George’s County was unable to do so because someone, without his knowledge, borrowed twenty thousand dollars in his name—twenty thousand that was never paid back. Allegedly, that
