way she thought.
I hadn’t planned to trap them.
I hadn’t spent six nights secretly preparing some elaborate revenge.
The document already existed.
Every repair customer who wanted work done through my shop’s insurance program signed one.
It simply confirmed three things:
The customer had inspected the completed vehicle.
The customer accepted the repairs.
And the customer acknowledged responsibility for the final invoice if payment wasn’t made according to the agreed terms.
The difference was that Laura and Brent had signed it after the work was completed.
They had personally inspected the Mercedes.
They had taken possession of it.
And they had refused to pay afterward.
Their signatures made it very difficult to pretend they had never approved the work.
But there was another detail they hadn’t considered.
The document also contained a clause requiring disputes over unpaid invoices to go through formal collection procedures.
And because the Mercedes had
