All Chapters of Rejected, Now He Craves For Me: Chapter 11

Eli never went back to the office.He called his partners at 5:03 a.m., told them to reassign every case on his docket, and by the time the sun rose over the lilacs the estate library had been transformed.The long mahogany table was buried under colour-coded folders.Three whiteboards on wheels formed a semicircle, covered in timelines and arrows in Eli’s terrifyingly neat handwriting.Jayden’s laptops glowed like a NASA control room.Mason’s guitar case leaned against a bookshelf he’d walked straight off a fourteen-hour flight, hugged me until my ribs creaked, and declared, “Point me at the bastards.”Eli stood at the head of the table in rolled shirtsleeves, hair still perfect, eyes blazing with the same protective fury I remembered from when we were kids and someone tried to cut me in the lunch line.“My sister’s divorce,” he announced to the room, “is now my only client. Everything else can burn.”A copy of Victoria’s divorce papers was projected on the far wall, twenty feet tall