The Divorce That Brought Us Back novel Chapter 95

Whether Howard Quigley was genuinely clueless or just playing dumb, the Quigley family at least knew how to read the room.

Everyone had enabled Valery Smith for far too long.

There was no getting through to the Smiths about this, but the Quigleys still cared about their reputation.

The Smiths wanted to use Jasmine as a fig leaf, so Maloney simply pointed out to the Quigleys that their fig leaf had run away—did they really want to keep humiliating themselves alongside the Smiths?

The problem was resolved far easier than anticipated.

Maloney was in a great mood.

He said smoothly, "Thanks for the hard work, Leo. Sorry to bother you so late at night."

"Oh, give it a rest," Leo scoffed.

The respectful title was purely based on age.

Leo's position as the President of the Chamber of Commerce had practically been handed to him by Maloney.

The connections in their elite circle generally fell into two categories.

The first was emotionally driven: family friends, school alumni, brothers who had weathered the storm together back when they were still fighting their way to the top.

The second was purely transactional: alliances forged during their ascent in business, politics, or academia, built fundamentally on the exchange of mutual benefits.

Leo belonged to the first category.

"Working the night shift for your wife?"

"Mind your own business."

Maloney hung up the phone.

His mind was already racing, plotting exactly what kind of reward he was going to extract from Nora for this.

The difficulty level of resolving this mess was at least a solid medium-high.

Sure, it only took him one phone call.

But that was because of his extensive network.

If the three friends had tried to fix it themselves, they likely would have had to march back and scream at the Smiths, then rely on Cassidy's mother-in-law, Bridget, to intervene.

They would have ended up owing a massive favor.

He had to strike while the iron was hot.

After careful consideration...

Maloney decided to put this favor on a tab for now.

After all, networking was a long-term investment.

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