The evaluator’s preliminary notes — which came in through a separate subpoena and which Evelyn Sinclair had not seen either — recommended a change in primary residence to the mother.

He had not read those notes.

He could not have.

But he had sat in a room with that evaluator twice and he was not a stupid man, and he knew which way it was going.

Part Eleven: Their Mother

Evelyn Sinclair got to the hospital at 6:20 that evening and I did not meet her until eleven days later.