Consent is irrevocable seventy-two hours after signing.

Clause nine.

She relocates outside Wisconsin within ten days of the delivery.”

I had read those three lines in my car for twenty minutes and hadn’t gotten past them either.

“Keep going,” I said.

“Visitation at the discretion of the adoptive grandparents.” She set the page down.

“Claire, they wrote a contract that pays her to disappear and calls it a kindness.”

“Page six is a confidentiality clause.