Chapter 26

• Maxwell was of the opinion that Taylor should have shown up at the meeting with a less expensive car so it doesn’t seem as though he’s trying to rub his wealth on Renee, triggering her further.
• He was just about saying his one bit when the stuuning interior of Taylor’s customised Aston Martin DBS stunted his silence, it was a cocoon of expensive silence, a stark contrast to the explosive legal theatre they had just left. The car, the colour of midnight graphite, hummed as they eased away from the mediation centre’s discreet subterranean car park. Even with the windows sealed against the noise, the air inside felt charged, thick with Maxwell’s barely contained anger.
• Taylor drove with one hand casually draped over the leather steering wheel, his attention fixed on the precise choreography of traffic. He didn't look across at Maxwell, who was staring out the passenger window, his profile set in a grim mask of annoyance.