Adele looked at the folder and understood the whole of it at once.

They had not come to meet Finn.

They had come to catch a woman while she was exhausted, sore, and recovering from surgery, and corner her into signing away her grandmother’s legacy before she had the strength to fight.

“If you don’t sign,” Leopold added, leaning over the bed, “you will raise that child entirely alone.

No house.

No family.