My mother-in-law said she didn’t care about my 9-year-old daughter, and my husband agreed. Then he called me stupid and said I would sign whatever they needed.

monitor app, still linked to my phone because she liked using it as a walkie-talkie whenever she was sick. The email from Dennis Calhoun’s office with metadata showing the original transfer agreement. The text from Preston telling me to “sign without making this difficult.”

Elaine sat down again.

Preston whispered, “What do you want?”

I looked toward continue reading …