“That’s $56,700 the HOA has paid to Kessler Snow & Ice,” I said. “Not counting this year’s budget. I went back through Jim’s notebook. There were thirty-one storms in those four years. Every single one of them is written down in this book in pencil. Somebody in a green and white truck plowed them all. Kessler didn’t plow one.”
The room was very quiet. Somebody’s stomach growled.
Grant laughed. “This is insane. Loretta, I know you’ve been under strain…”
“Then tell us the dates,” Hector said. He was leaning against the wall in his scrubs, because he was going to work after. “You’ve got the binder. Show us one invoice with a date on it, Grant. Just one.”
Grant opened the binder. He turned a page. He turned another.
I laid down the last sheet. The printout from the Secretary of State. Kessler Snow & Ice LLC. Registered agent: Lance Kessler. Mailing address: a UPS Store box in Monticello.
