Terminal Four

I was not wrong about the method.

The method works.

That is the whole trouble with it.”

Part Thirty-Four: The Settlement

The civil action settled fourteen months in, four weeks before trial, which is where almost everything settles.

The terms are confidential and I am going to describe the structure without the numbers, because the structure is the interesting part and the numbers are not.

She paid. Not to me and not to Evelyn.

Every dollar went into an irrevocable trust for Maya and Nora with a corporate trustee and an independent protector, from which no parent may direct anything, and which neither girl can touch outside education and medical until twenty-five.