(Lena)
Cole called me before I even had a chance to open my emails.
"Gerald filed the counter response," he said. "I'm sending it to you now. I want you to read it and then call me back."
I was at my desk with my first cup of coffee still untouched in front of me. I opened my laptop and found the email and clicked on the attachment.
It was twelve pages. Gerald Voss had been thorough, I would give him that. The language was careful and measured and in places almost reasonable sounding if you didn't know what was actually being argued. I read the whole thing before I let myself react to any of it.
The core argument was exactly what Cole had told me to expect. Gerald was challenging my professional contribution to the property on the grounds that the design work I had done was performed
