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72| THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT TALK
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Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 74| THE MOTION
Dante's PovWe got back to the apartment and she sat at the kitchen table and I put coffee on and sat across from her and waited."He has been in custody for weeks," she said."Yes," I said."He confessed in open court," she said. "To embezzlement. To the accident. On record voluntarily.""Yes," I said."And he files for a mistrial," she said. "On the basis of new evidence that nobody has seen yet and that nobody can assess until a hearing that is at minimum forty-eight hours away.""Yes," I said."The system allows that," she said."Yes," I said. "It does."She looked at the table. "I know it allows it. I know why it allows it. Due process exists because the alternative is worse. I know all of that." She paused. "I am still angry about it.""That is allowed," I said."I know it is allowed," she said. "I am naming it because if I do not name it I sit here looking like I am fine and I am not fine right now.""Tell me what not fine looks like tonight," I said.She looked up. "Tired," sh
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 73| THE VIDEO CALL
Valerie's PovThe call was set up through the court's video link system.Not our preference. Hale's lawyer had insisted on the format as a condition of any engagement at all. Just a voluntary conversation over a secure court-approved channel, with both legal teams present on their respective ends.It was not ideal. It was what we had.Dante sat beside me at the conference table. Marcus was behind us. Our lawyer was on the other side of the room.The screen came on. Hale appeared. He was older than his file photograph. He had the particular quality of someone who had been sleeping badly and was not going to tell you that."Mr Hale," I said. "Thank you for agreeing to speak.""My lawyer said I should," he said. "I am not sure it is the right decision.""You can end the call at any time," I said.He looked at me through the screen. "You are the woman from the papers," he said."Yes," I said."Cassian talked about you," he said. "Early on. When he was first putting the company together.
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 72| THE MAN WHO WOULD NOT TALK
Dante's PovThe witness's name was Gordon Hale.I pulled everything we had on him in forty minutes. Former early-stage investor in Thorne Industries.In at the ground level when the company was still called Thorne Capital Group and had three employees and an office the size of a large cupboard. He had put in four hundred thousand at the start and taken out significantly more when Cassian bought him out five years later.He had stayed quiet since. No public profile. No board positions. A property management business in the southern suburbs that was small and clean and not connected to anything that touched Cassian's later operations."He is not a criminal," I said.Valerie was across the table from me. We were in her office, documents spread between us, the hearing suspended for the day."No," she said. "He is someone who made money from a man he knew was doing something wrong and looked the other way.""And now that man is naming people in open court," I said. "And Hale has decided th
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 71| THE NAME HE SAID
Valerie's PovWe found a quiet room off the main corridor.Two chairs and a table and a window onto a side courtyard. The kind of room that existed in courthouses because people needed somewhere to sit between things.Marcus was on the phone outside. Our legal team was with the DA's office. Dante and I were inside with the door half closed and the low hum of the building around us."Webb," I said."Yes," Dante said."He was there," I said. "He drove Cassian to the car. He stood in a car park and watched a man cut the brake line of a vehicle. And then seven years later he sat across a table from me in a hotel room and told me Cassian was planning a kidnapping.""Yes," Dante said."He was doing it to protect himself," I said. "Because Cassian had found out he had been talking to people on our side. He came to us to get ahead of being named.""That is the read," Dante said."But his information was accurate," I said. "The Ferris contact. The surveillance. The kidnapping plan. All of it w
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 70| IN OPEN COURT
Dante's PovThe recess lasted twelve minutes.I used them to stand in the corridor with Valerie and the DA and say very little because there was very little to say that was useful."He is naming an accomplice," the DA said. Her voice was tight. Professional tight, not panicked. "Or claiming one. We need to understand which before the session resumes.""Can you question him during the recess?" I said."He is representing himself," she said. "Any conversation I have with him on the record has to go through the court. Off the record he will not speak to me." She looked at Valerie. "Did you have any indication of this in the visitation room?""No," Valerie said. "He said he did it himself.""He said he changed the tires himself," I said. "That does not exclude someone else being present.""That is the argument he is going to make," the DA said. "That doing it himself and having someone with him are not mutually exclusive.""Who could it have been?" Valerie said."Unknown," the DA said. "W
Making My Ex-Husband Crawl 69| THE CORRIDOR BEFORE
Valerie's PovThe courthouse was busier than I expected.We arrived forty minutes early because Marcus had insisted on it and Marcus was usually right about these things.Dante and I stood in the corridor outside the hearing room while our legal team went through the final briefing inside. The hallway had the particular quiet of a place designed for it. E Just people and the sound of their shoes on the floor."After this," I said."Yes," he said."Dinner," I said. "The place near the water.""Yes," he said."And then Portugal," I said."And then Portugal," he said.I looked back at the corridor. The doors at the far end. The ordinary business of the building going on around something that was not ordinary at all."Thank you," I said. "For being here.""There is nowhere else I would be," he said.The legal team came out. Marcus gave me a brief nod that meant everything was in order. We moved to the hearing room.It was a mid-sized courtroom. Not the large public space. A room for serio
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