JAMES
“He wrote it in plain language.”
James said it at seven in the morning from Vivienne’s kitchen with the article of incorporation open on his laptop and the particular quality of someone who had been awake since four and had spent the hours between four and seven making absolutely certain that what he was looking at was what he thought it was before he told anyone else.
Vivienne sat across from him with her coffee and her complete attention and the expression she had developed specifically for moments when James said something significant and she needed to understand the full shape of it before responding.
“The beneficiary clause,” he said. “Paragraph fourteen, subsection three of the disbursement conditions. In a document that is otherwise written in the dense impenetrable langua
