If your father thinks you need constant care, he’ll let me stay.

And with any luck, Charlotte finally gets fed up and leaves for good. And Tristan, on the tape, laughing: Then you can move back in with Dad!

Zachary set the phone down on the table hard.

“Is your injury fake?”

Tristan took a step back.

“Dad—”

“Is it fake?”

His ex-wife tried to slide between them.