(Lena)
The message came through while I was wrapping up a call with a contractor about a delivery schedule for the Lawson project.
Draft response attached. Read it when you have time and call me.
I finished the call, closed my notebook, and opened the email.
It was twenty pages. Longer than Gerald's counter filing by eight pages and structured in a way that made Gerald's version look thin by comparison. I read it from the beginning without skipping anything and by the time I got to the section on the independent valuation expert I had stopped taking notes because I was too absorbed in what I was reading to write anything down.
Cole had not just responded to Gerald's argument. He had taken it apart piece by piece and then built something in its place that was so clean and so precise th
