Helen pushed her reading glasses into place and leaned in, her thumb resting on the polished edge of the table.

“Look at paragraph six, sweetheart,” she whispered under her breath.

Paragraph six said that during the last nine months of his life, Walter Ashford had suffered from advanced vascular dementia and lacked the legal capacity to give away high-value assets.

It claimed I had deliberately cut off a frail, elderly man from his close family so I could secure improper financial gain.

Stapled to the very back of the filing was a blurry photocopy of a doctor’s letter on official medical stationery from a clinic in Gastonia.