For Fourteen Years My Son Lived Rent-Free in a House He Believed Was His

I took the leather chair across from her.

Outside her strip mall office, the morning sky was overcast and gray.

“What did you turn up?” I asked.

“In May, Brandon filed an amendment to the corporate resolution of Mitchell Family Holdings,” Margaret said.

“He named himself the sole managing partner.”

She slid a stapled document across the dark wooden table.

My name was typed at the bottom of the second page, above a blank line meant for a county notary’s stamp.

“That signature line is blank,” I said.