"Apparently," Liam said, and something in his voice when he said it was complicated, something that was not entirely without acknowledgment. "She is not what he told me she was. He described her as oblivious and biddable and she is neither of those things, which created complications in the plan that he is still attempting to resolve."
"The woman in the restaurant bathroom," I said.
A pause that confirmed it before he spoke.
"His arrangement," Liam said. "Not mine. I want to be clear about that. The psychological destabilization of your wife was his method, not my preference. I told him it was unnecessary and imprecise and that imprecise methods created variables." He paused. "He did not listen. He rarely does when he has decided something."
"And the apartment today," I said. "That was
