LOGINMarcus Webb had been Adrian's attorney for seven years. He'd represented Kane Group through its restructuring years earlier, and then through the early stages of the divorce, before Adrian had instructed him to give Sophia everything without contest — a decision Webb had pushed back against more for
Spring in Portland was emphatic. Not like the tentative spring Adrian remembered from Chicago, nor the gradual, hesitant one Sophia recalled from her childhood elsewhere — Portland spring arrived as though it had been held back deliberately and then released all at once, green and loud and fully com
She told him about James Hart's email on a Friday evening in the kitchen, while Noah was upstairs in the bath doing the singing he wasn't supposed to know she could hear through the vents. She told him in the same tone she used for foundation numbers or LexNova's quarterly projections — factual, cle
She spent twenty minutes with the email before she decided what she actually felt about it. That was longer than she usually needed for most things that crossed her desk, and she allowed it to be longer, understanding that some messages deserved more than the first, easiest response a person could r
The Ethan Foundation's spring press release listed him by name in the partnership section for the first time in its fully public form. He had been anonymous for five years. He had been identified on the donor list for one more after that. Now, in the complete public version of the foundation's story
She had not planned the moment when they became public knowledge. What happened instead was ordinary, almost mundane in its origin: they went to a restaurant in Portland on a Saturday evening, and a photographer from a local business publication happened to be covering an entirely different story at







