“Leave it on until I fall asleep?”

“I will.”

She pulled the blanket to her chin.

I sat beside her with the song sheet on my knee, listening as she sang the last line under her breath.

After a few minutes, she opened her eyes again.

“Daddy, if the lady who filed the papers comes back, will she take me away?”

“No one has shown the court a valid reason to remove you from my care.

The court will keep checking the records, and I will answer every request they make.”