Chapter 7 - The continuity package
Victor Knox discovered what Seraphine had been doing six weeks before the engagement party.
Not theft.
Not murder.
Governance.
Seraphine had begun circulating something called the:
Knox-Romano Continuity Package.
It contained draft proposals suggesting that after our marriage:
She would become vice chair of Knox Harbor Holdings.
I would receive a nonvoting observer role.
Several Knox family interests would combine their votes through a coordination agreement.
The Hudson Crescent project would appoint Seraphine as family liaison.
None of those things were automatically illegal.
The problem was authority.
Victor had not approved the package.
Neither had I.
Seraphine presented portions to three minority Knox shareholders as:
“the structure Dad and Evander want after the wedding.”
False.
Two relatives signed nonbinding letters indicating support.
A third refused and called Victor’s lawyer.
That was how the issue surfaced.
Victor confronted Seraphine privately.
She told him:
“You’re retiring eventually.”
He said:
“Yes. That does not make you chairman.”
She told him the engagement changed everything.
It did not.
Then she made the mistake that caused Victor to contact me.
She said:
“If you don’t support the transition, the Romanos may decide they don’t need Knox anymore.”
Victor heard his own daughter using my name as pressure.
He called me.
Asked one question:
“Did you authorize her to speak for you?”
“No.”
May you like
The engagement began dying that day.
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