Ivy arrived at Vane Tower twenty minutes later, Declan's warning still sitting uneasy in her chest, and found Sterling and Reagan already gathered in the conference room, a thick stack of legal documents spread across the table between them.

"Holt's defense team filed this as part of discovery," Reagan said, sliding a folder toward Ivy the moment she sat down. "It's meant to undermine Trent's credibility as a witness. I want you to see it before it becomes public, because it's going to complicate things considerably, regardless of how the trial actually goes."

Ivy opened the folder, and felt her stomach drop reading the first page, old, careful documentation of...