Does their mother have reason to be afraid of your family?”

I put the forged letter on her desk and watched her read it.

She took longer over the signature than I expected.

“I cannot tell you who created this without examining the originals,” she said.

“But I can tell you that threatening litigation against Lauren would recreate exactly the kind of pressure she says she ran from.”

I asked her to keep that sentence in the file.

I wanted it where I would have to see it if I ever got impatient.