Cole's POV
She looked at the document and did not touch it.
That was the right instinct. I noted it without saying so.
"Before you open it," I said, "I want to explain the logic. Not to sell it to you. Because you deserve to understand what you're agreeing to before you decide."
"Then talk."
"Victor's play requires two things. Uncertainty about the baby and uncertainty about you. If you're a junior employee carrying my child with no formal standing in my life, he has room to work. He can question paternity, manufacture a narrative, bring Sophia back as a mirror image and let the comparison do the damage." I kept my voice even. "But if you're my wife, he loses both levers at once. There is no paternity question inside a marriage. There is no narrative about a vulnerable employee becaus
