The TRO hit the internet at 2:47 p.m. on a Friday.
By three o'clock Ethan had released a statement through his PR firm. It was three sentences long and used the word baseless twice. Mia read it standing in Sarah's kitchen with her phone in one hand and a dish towel in the other, and she noted the word choice the way she had trained herself to note everything now — not with feeling, just with documentation. Baseless. Twice. A word chosen specifically because it sounded legal without being legal, chosen to move in mouths and comment sections before anyone had time to examine it.
Lila posted nothing.
That silence, Mia had learned, was always louder than anything Lila actually said.
"Baseless," Sarah read aloud from the couch. "He used it twice."
"I heard."
"You want me to be angry on yo
