Three months later, I got a letter.
It was from the state attorney general's office. The investigation into the Hollis Family Foundation had concluded. The foundation was fined. The institute was dissolved. Linda's businesses were audited. Patricia Hollis was required to restructure the family trust and submit to oversight for five years.
The letter was not addressed to me specifically. It was a form letter, sent to everyone who had filed a complaint. But I read it three times.
I had not filed a complaint. I had just sent an email. But two hundred people had read it, and forty of them had filed complaints, and the state had done the rest.
I put the letter in a drawer and went back to work.
Nina called me that week. I almost did not answer. But I did.
"Hello," I said.
A pause. "Hey."
