Primary Legal Guardian: Meredith Ashworth.

A quiet warmth moved through my chest.

Years ago, a man had pictured a future in which I’d be a woman with no job, no house, no power, and, at the end of it, no son.

And here my name stood on the page — not because of a trust, not because I controlled a corporation, but because I was Micah’s mother and I had refused, from the third hour of his life, to let anyone erase me from it.

Micah came pelting across the grass and wrapped both arms around my waist.