Don’t answer any of them.”

The last one came in at 9:31.

“I’ll have my attorney call yours in the morning if that’s how you’d rather do it.”

I set the phone face down, then flipped it back over, because the screen lit up more clearly against the wood.

“On Tuesday he wanted five hundred thousand dollars out of the settlement,” I said.

“Now all he wants is my signature at nine o’clock at night.”

Arthur pulled the pad back and ruled a line beneath the last timestamp, pressing hard enough to leave a groove.