25
“That was exciting, wasn’t it?” Mrs. Scott whispers to me, her eyes bright. “Oh, how I wish your grandmother could have been here herself! She loved a good fight with your parents.”
Jake is still over in the corner with the group of people talking to Halli’s mother, but finally at least we make eye contact. He scratches the side of his cheek, then holds up that finger in what I think is a sign to wait for him. He doesn’t have to worry about that—I’m dying to find out what he thought of the whole meeting.
But meanwhile I have Mrs. Scott to ask.
“Can you explain what just happened?” I ask her. “What exactly were they trying to do?”
“Cheat you, of course.”
“But how?”
“By selling the company right from under you,” she says. “Selling it to themselves so they can finally be rid of Virg
