Claire did not tell Nathaniel about Olivia and James.
Not yet. That conversation needed the right moment and it was not the middle of a crisis.
But the other file, that she could not leave alone.
She called James that afternoon, catching him between meetings, and asked him directly.
“Vanessa said something in the settlement room,” Claire said. “She asked Richard if he had told us about the other file. What file, James?”
Silence on the line.
“James.”
“I heard you,” he said. “I am thinking about how to answer.”
“The honest way would be good.”
Another pause. “There is a secondary set of documents we have not been able to locate yet. Everything we built the case on, the footage, the financial records, the audio recording from Sarah, all of it is solid. But Carter Webb, the private in
