“They built their own legal trap, Lauren.

Your job is just not to spring it too early.”

“Cole walked out of the courtroom today looking like he’d won everything,” I said.

“Cole walked out of court with forty-eight hours of baby duty,” Margaret said.

“He has no idea Whitmore Capital is finishing its audit by February fifteenth.”

She got up from her chair, her silver cane holding her weight without a tremor.

“Go down the hall and eat something,” she said.