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.

he said. I wrapped both hands around my cup like it was the only thing I

custody

be even

the procedure and the price,” he

it can be done.What exactly do you want?” I took a breath, pulling up the list

mother, Renee, is

filed an aggravated assault claim against me.”

“Assault?” he confirmed.

confrontation.She turned it into assault,” I

matters.She’s using it to build a narrative of instability.” He wrote down

“Instability.”

“Yes.” I continued.

build a narrative of negligence in our home.Not

father… and…” he left the sentence open.

and the child’s father.Nick Valemont.We’re

is some

disappearance incident,”

“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.

away because she wanted to go back to her father.She tried to come home.And Renee turned that into ‘a kidnapping orchestrated by

implies it.She never accuses in a way that can easily come

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