Ren was waiting in the parking lot when Hunter got back to the car, phone already in his hand. "You told her one week."
"She told me one week," Hunter said. "I didn't get a vote."
"One week isn't enough to build a case that survives contact with a press cycle," Ren said, climbing into the passenger seat. "We need to go back. Not to talk her out of it — to give her something real enough that the week actually works in our favor instead of against it."
"She's not going to want to see me again so soon," Hunter said.
"She doesn't need to see you," Ren said. "She needs to see me. This is exactly the kind of conversation that goes better with a lawyer instead of the person who just told her the worst thing she's heard in four years."
They drove back that afternoon. Ren went to the door alon
