That passed too. Somebody started calling it the Kimball exception. It’s in the covenants now, Rule 7.4(c). They waived my eleven hundred dollars in fines while they were at it.
Grant left before the bars were gone. Gina stayed until the end, and when I went to leave, she touched my arm.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “For all of it. Every letter.”
“You didn’t write them,” I said.
“I didn’t stop him.”
I didn’t have anything to say to that, because she was right, and because I think she already knew it was the worst thing that could be said about her.
A Moving Truck in March
The audit took six weeks. It found $55,900 of the $56,700 routed back into an account at Grant’s credit union. He’d also reimbursed himself for “HOA hospitality” four times, and for the stationery.
Grant’s lawyer asked the new board what it would take to keep it out of court.
