“Why are you telling me this,” Cloe typed back. “You just lost a custody case you built to destroy me. Why would you warn me about Sandra now.”
She stared at the screen while the three dots appeared and disappeared twice before his response came through.
Because she’s going too far. Whatever I did to you, I never wanted this. She’s not stopping and I can’t make her stop and you need to know that.
Cloe read it once. Then again.
She did not trust Marshall. She had not trusted Marshall since a pavement three weeks ago and she was not about to start now because he had sent her a text that sounded like conscience. Marshall did not operate from conscience. He operated from calculation. Which meant this text was a calculation too and the question was what he was calculating for.
She called M
