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Chapter 11 – Client, Jack

Author: Olivia GW
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-01 16:15:35

Natalie’s POV

I didn’t accept the meeting request.

Instead, I typed: Not currently in the U.S. Will reach out when I return.

Then hit send before I could second-guess it.

Which was a lie. I was very much here, sitting in my office, drinking lukewarm coffee and avoiding anything that had Brandon York’s name on it.

I just wasn’t ready. Not for a meeting. Not for a conversation. Not for the possibility that he might know the truth already.

I had only touched that divorce agreement because I was mad. Frustrated. And maybe a little curious about how far I could push. I didn’t expect him to actually… reach out.

Anyway, work.

Emma brought in a client, a local logistics company called Green Valley. They’d finished a short-term warehousing and transport contract with York International. Everything went smoothly… until York’s legal team decided they weren’t paying the final $150,000.

Their reason? “Performance defects.”

My eyes rolled so hard.

“What defects?” I asked during the initial consult.
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