The satisfaction didn't last long. It rarely did, this season, Rae was learning — every hard-won victory seemed to carry, buried somewhere in its wake, the seed of the next crisis.
It arrived Sunday evening, three days after the video broke, in the form of a certified letter delivered to the apartment, addressed specifically to Rae, with a law firm's letterhead she didn't recognize.
"What is it?" Beckett asked, watching her face go pale as she read.
"Halloran's suing," Rae said, disbelief coloring her voice. "For wrongful termination. And she's naming me specifically in the filing — claims I fabricated allegations of misconduct to protect my own eligibility, and that the recording used against her at the board meeting was obtained illegally, without her consent, in violation of state wi
