Four Years Of Legal Pads And Cold Coffee Behind A Closed Door They All Assumed Held Nothing Important

The file on my phone was the conference-room clip. I did not play the audio at the table. I did not need to.

 

I simply let Colton see the frozen frame of himself standing in front of my private demo file, timestamped, on a screen his firm was never authorized to open, and I watched a man who had spent two dinners deciding what kind of woman I was realize, in real time, exactly what kind he had actually been dealing with. He set his spoon down very carefully. My father asked what it was. I turned the phone so Sienna could see it too, because she deserved to.

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