forged power of attorney.”
Dalton whistled quietly.
“That’s not a mistake,” he said. “That’s a pattern.”
Exactly.
“They planning to pocket the money?” he asked.
I pictured Chloe’s watch and the way she had told me they made my room nice.
“Yes,” I said.
“All of it?”
I nodded.
“All right,” he said. “Then we don’t warn them.”
Morales agreed.
I leaned forward.
“What’s the fastest way to stop this?”
Dalton answered immediately.
“Lis pendens,” he said.
A formal notice of legal dispute tied to the property.
Once filed, the
