Garrett Finch called on a Tuesday and asked if she had thirty minutes.
Sera recognized the name immediately. Roman's legal counsel for over a decade. She had met him twice during the marriage, briefly, at functions where he had been professionally warm and she had been the wife and neither of them had needed to be anything beyond that. She agreed to meet him Thursday at the Montague Industries office and spent the two days in between not thinking about it, which was its own kind of thinking about it.
He arrived exactly on time. She noted that.
He sat across from her with a briefcase he did not open and the careful expression of a man who had rehearsed his words and was deciding, even now, whether to deliver them exactly as planned.
"Ms. Montague. Thank you for seeing me." He settled hi
