Anna POV
I looked at the closed study door. “He told me to email Pauline and tell her my schedule doesn’t allow it. And to talk to him first before I reply to anything like that again.”
Celeste was quiet for a moment.
“Add it to the written file anyway,” she said. “Date, time, what he said, word for word as close as you can get it. It won’t win anything alone but it builds the pattern. And the next time he does it…”
“I’ll have my hand in my pocket,” I said.
“Good.” A pause. “Are you alright?”
I looked at the laptop sitting closed on the desk. Pauline’s draft still saved inside it. Dear Pauline, thank you for thinking of me. I would be very interested in…
“Yes,” I said.
“You’re going to get out of there,” Celeste said. “I need you to keep believing that.”
Once Celeste said that, I
