Not to fire Adrian.
Not to threaten anyone.
He informed Vale Meridian’s general counsel that he had just learned an employee under independent review was married to his daughter.
He requested complete recusal from all decisions involving Adrian Cole.
Then he ended the call.
“No revenge,” he said.
“No revenge.”
“Can I dislike him?”
“Enthusiastically.”
That afternoon, my attorney came to Willowcrest.
She was a woman I had known since university and one of the few people who understood that I did not want theatrical justice.
I wanted clean records.
We prepared notices disputing the equipment-lease guarantee.
Preservation requests for joint financial records.
A temporary separation plan.
Nothing was filed dramatically at my bedside.
No process server waiting behind flowers.
We moved carefully.
Because that is what adults do when a child has just been born and the marriage is collapsing.
