After the hearing, Sofia Vasconcelos did something Camila hadn't anticipated.
She went quiet.
Not the quiet of someone who had conceded. The specific, considered quiet of someone who had changed approaches. Rafael tracked it through his contacts and reported it to Leonardo, and Leonardo passed it to Camila with the careful neutrality of a man choosing to keep her inside the information rather than managing it on her behalf.
"She's stopped engaging with the press," he said.
"Since when?"
"Ten days ago. Her lawyer filed a withdrawal on three separate press inquiries they'd been feeding." He paused. "She's meeting with someone. We don't know who yet."
"What kind of someone?"
"Someone outside the legal and social circles we can see into. Paulo is working on it."
Paulo Matos, she had co
