“I don't want to give up,” Brewer said. “Give me a response to the $300,000 offer and let me take it to them.”
“Okay, our response to that is $1,625,000.”
Linda Brewer shook her head. “I should tell you that the last couple of times in that other room, Nolan has been talking about your client's husband breaking into his house to attack him. He's angry and he wants to push the prosecution, and he plans to file a lawsuit against John. If we could reach agreement,” Linda said, “maybe we can make all of this go away.”
Sarah felt the anger rise. She took a deep breath and said, “John's actions may have been misguided, but he was responding to a dreadful attack by Nolan. He stood up for me. If they think that they can make us lay down by threatening John, they are sadly mistaken. Please let t
