“I needed a pastor I could trust to perform my legal marriage and keep my records out of Arthur’s hands.”

Wade stopped typing and laid his hands flat on the laminate table.

“The emergency legal stay Arthur threatened won’t be processed until Monday,” Wade said.

“If we file the marriage papers before that, he has no legal standing to freeze her assets.”

“Then we don’t wait for Monday,” Margaret said.

“We get married in the hospital chapel Saturday morning.”

“Saturday’s only forty-eight hours away,” I said.

“Then you’d better go sign the chapel register, Tommy,” Margaret said, winking with her right eye.