(Cole)
The office had gone quiet by the time I set the Calloway file down.
Most of the floor had emptied out hours ago and Ryan had finally left after I told him twice that he could go. The city outside my windows was still fully alive, lights spread across Midtown while traffic moved through the streets below. I stayed at my desk because there was no point going home when my mind was already too far into the case to switch off.
What Lena told me tonight changed things in a way that needed careful thought before morning.
Not because it shifted the core argument. Her financial contribution to the house was already documented and undeniable regardless of what Jade's pregnancy turned out to be. But it changed the landscape around Brad completely, and that mattered in ways that weren't imm
