I had assumed they believed the gossip about me being unstable and ungrateful.

Now I began to see another explanation.

“Those drawings were mine,” I whispered.

“They may be,” Simone said.

“We’ll review the agreements.

We need facts and documents before deciding what rights you retained.”

For once, my former husband did not tell me I was overreacting.

He stared at the papers and said, “My father may have taken more from both of us than we understood.”