"So our documentation defeats that."
"Our documentation makes it very difficult to sustain. Yes."
Another pause. I could hear her thinking on the other end of the line. Not the silence of someone who had nothing to say but the silence of someone processing what they had just heard and deciding what to do with it.
"You said he's moving from urgency," she said. "Does that mean he's scared?"
"It means he didn't expect this to go the way it's going. Men like Brad tend to assume the other person will eventually take the path of least resistance. You didn't. That changes his calculations."
"Good," she said. There was something in her voice when she said it that was not quite satisfaction but close to it. The same quality I had noticed in her from the very first meeting. She was not enjoying
