We spend the rest of the afternoon building the case.
Rhys's lawyer arrives at four, a compact precise man named Graham who has the energy of someone who has seen everything and is only mildly surprised by any of it. He sits at the kitchen table with Claire's folder and his own laptop and works through the documents with the focused quiet of a surgeon.
Nora makes coffee and does not stop moving, cross referencing Claire's financial records against Martin Raymond's publicly available business history and finding matches that make her say things under her breath that I choose not to repeat.
Joel sits with Rhys on the couch and they talk in low voices and I give them that, the specific privacy of two men who have been friends long enough to not need an audience for the important co
