Webb filed at eight fifteen in the morning.
The civil claim response was one hundred and twelve pages of documented reality, supported by the timeline Damien’s legal team had been constructing since November, the correspondence, the recorded calls where they existed, the financial documentation of Nadia’s engineering of the original arrangement, Marin’s statement, the evidence of Robert’s coordination role, and a supplementary declaration from Diana Mercer in her capacity as a Vantage Meridian board member regarding the use of the firm’s filing as a coordinated pressure tool.
It was comprehensive in the way that comprehensive means, covering everything.
Nadia’s attorneys received it at nine.
By ten, her civil claim had been withdrawn.
Webb called with the news in the flat tone of a ma
