Silent Condemnation

The following afternoon, Jared asked me to meet him to discuss Bower. Crestview wanted to settle, apparently, now that Lydia had switched to our firm.

I felt a weird sort of disappointment. I guessed I was just looking forward to the fight. A fight that I was one hundred percent sure that we were going to win.

We were both working out of the municipal courthouse all afternoon, so he suggested lunc