We need the underlying messages and the contractor’s account of the assignment.

Don’t conclude more than the evidence shows.”

“But she was frightened.”

“I know.

That gives us a reason to act carefully, not recklessly.”

Dominic called me three times that afternoon.

I let every call go to voicemail.

In the last message, he said we had survived worse than this and should arrange a private conversation before anyone misunderstood our business.