He Abandoned Our Wedding, I Destroyed His Life novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: The Archive
I read Chris's email twice.
Then I laughed, alone in my office, loud enough that the associate in the next room leaned back in.
"Is that good laughing or bad laughing?"
"He's wrong," I said. "And he knows he's wrong."
Deleting a post doesn't delete a paid ad.
The reformer company had paid Jade to make that reel.
Companies that pay for ads keep the ads.
By noon my father had signed a subpoena to the reformer company in California, asking for every file Jade had ever sent them.
Their lawyer took a week to call back.
When she did, she said they'd comply, and that they were "not thrilled" to learn what their talent was doing with their product.
"Tonight," she said. "We're three hours behind you. Don't wait up."
We waited up.
At nine o'clock the litigation floor at Whitford Lane looked like a dorm during finals.
Shoes off under desks.
The paralegal had built a fort of banker's boxes around her chair and refused to come out of it.
The youngest associate was teaching himself to read a studio class schedule off a blurry screen, with a ruler held up to his monitor.
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