I could wait three days for that.

I had waited seven years for far less.

Chapter 13 — The Ink

Three days later, the sky was clear blue, and brisk autumn wind rattled the heavy doors of the county courthouse.

I sat in my idling car for ten minutes before I could make myself go in, because severing a corporation from a bad contract is familiar work to me, but severing myself from the man I had once adored required a different kind of armor entirely.

Christopher waited in the hallway, flanked by Beatrice, wearing the bespoke shirt I had imported for his last birthday.