REBECCA’S POV
On Monday morning at 7:15 a.m., Marcus filed the prenup challenge.
I knew this because he called me at 7:18 with the confirmation. Two sentences. “It’s filed. The documentation has been submitted to the court. They have received it.” Then he hung up and I sat in my kitchen with my tea and I understood that the thing I had been building toward was now in motion in a way that could not be reversed or adjusted or withdrawn.
I waited until 8:30.
Then I executed the move that Olivia and I had identified three weeks ago. The precise application of pressure at the single structural point where pressure did not stay contained. It was not the first move I had made, that had been minor, deniable, the kind of thing that could be attributed to system variance. It was not the second
