“When Mary brought Sadie in last night, Sadie had three sheets of yellow lined paper tucked into her coat.

Trevor had covered them from top to bottom with your full legal name.”

The office went dead quiet apart from the hum of the overhead light.

“He didn’t lock her out for misbehaving,” Walter said.

“He locked her out because she saw him signing your name.”

My thumb pushed hard into my index finger.

“She caught him in the act,” I said.

“She came up behind his chair while Colleen was holding the notary stamp,” Walter said.