Chapter 708

Gwen’s POV

The café sat on a quiet side street.

I picked the table all the way in the back, with a clear view of the door and the counter.

An old habit.

When you grow up being watched, you learn to watch first. The man arrived without rushing, without glancing around too much, like someone who knows that people in a hurry draw attention.

Dark suit, carefully scruffy beard, slim briefcase.

Not a lawyer’s.

The kind carried by someone who preferred his work to stay off paper. “Ms.Kensington?” he asked. I nodded. He sat down.

“You can call me Lawrence,” he said.

“You were referred to me.”

“I know,” I replied.

“And I won’t be using your name outside this room.” One corner of his mouth almost lifted.

speak the same language,” he said. I wrapped both hands around my cup like it was the

a custody

to be even more… careful.”

changes the procedure and the

it can be done.What exactly do you want?” I took a breath, pulling up the list that had been organized in my head since the moment Bella left her

biological mother, Renee, is playing dirty,”

already filed an aggravated assault claim against me.” I saw his gaze catch for

“Assault?” he confirmed.

confrontation.She turned it into assault,”

to give you emotional details.I’ll give you what matters.She’s using it

“Instability.”

“Yes.” I continued.

negligence in our home.Not hers.Ours.” I

he

and the child’s father.Nick

look like this is

disappearance incident,” he said,

“That’s part of it too.” I tightened my grip on the cup. “She manipulated the press to turn a simple fact into a crime,” I said.

back to her father.She tried to

“She implies it.She never accuses in a way that can easily come back to bite her.But she plants the

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