He pulled the thick legal envelope from under his arm and slid it forward.

The heavy paper made a dry scratching sound against the desk.

Ms.

Davis opened the metal clasp and took out a stack of dense legal pages.

She squared the corners by tapping the stack twice on her blotter.

The document was easily forty pages thick, printed on expensive watermarked paper.

I read the bold print centered at the top of the first page.

Voluntary Termination of Parental Rights.