“She also has a right not to be locked out of a house while her child is in her care and then named the abductor.

If this record is tested in open court, the petition you filed this morning will not be the only filing in the file.”

David looked at Blaire and tried the voice he used when he wanted the fight to end and the furniture to stay his.

“We can work this out as a family.

You don’t need these people.”

Blaire looked at the man she had explained to friends as stressed, ambitious, tired, misunderstood.