The thick, high-quality legal parchment lay directly in the center of the ink-stained workbench, like an unexploded bomb. The bold, crisp typography of the Blackwood Group logo seemed to mock the peeling wallpaper, as well as the faint smell of damp sawdust that had defined Olivia's life for the past six years. Olivia stared at the line of signatures. Her hands were buried deep in the pockets of her soaked raincoat; her fingers were intertwined in fists, so tight that her short nails bit into h