Three days before the girls appeared at Cordell’s counter, the court had scheduled the final custody evaluation.

A court investigator was going to interview Junia and Livia privately — away from both parents, in their own words — and everyone involved understood which way that interview was likely to go.

Pilar’s lawyers were quietly confident it would end the case and give her sole guardianship.

Fenwick understood it too.

He had three days.

Chapter 16 — What the Search History Showed