The car pulled up to the building at nine sharp and Lucas and I got out and went inside
and the legal team meeting was, as I had expected, entirely straightforward.
He handled the procedural elements with the efficiency of a man who has been doing this
for twenty years. I reviewed and signed where required, asked two questions he had
anticipated and prepared for, and we were done by eleven fifteen. Which left the rest of
the morning quiet in a way I had not had in longer than I could immediately calculate.
I sat in the car on the way back and looked at the city going about its business and thought
about what Olivia had said. About waiting for what came next. About patience. About the
specific quality of finally being on the right side of something.
What came next was Thursday.
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