She had cropped them.
Another read: You’re the only man I can rely on.
His reply was missing again: You need to stop saying things like that. Claire is my wife.
We now had something to fight back with socially, but the messages didn’t fix my garage.
Vanessa could be dishonest about Irvin and still be right that my bakery was operating from a space without the proper approval.
That was when the answer finally became obvious.
But the messages didn’t fix my garage.
“I’m closing the garage myself,” I said.
Irvin looked at me. “That’s what we’ve been trying to avoid.”
“And that’s why she has leverage. She can only threaten us with something we’re still trying to hide from.”
So I did the painful thing first.
I called every customer.
I refunded orders I couldn’t fulfill and postponed the ones I could.
“And that’s why she has leverage.”
