POV: Yessica | Location: Edinburgh
She forwarded the text to Diana first.
Then to Rafferty.
Then she sat and waited to see who would respond first.
Rafferty: forty seconds.
Don't engage. Whatever she's holding, it's designed to make you move before Friday. Sit on it.
Diana: two minutes.
Do not respond. Do not call Whitmore back. If Catherine wants to communicate, it goes through me. I'll contact her team now.
Yessica read both messages.
Put the phone face-down on the desk.
Sat with the text message behind her eyes.
Information that is not in the legal documents. She believes you would want to hear it before Friday.
The phrasing was careful. Too careful. Catherine Sterling had not personally drafted a text in her life — that was Whitmore's language, legal-adjacent, designed to c
