“And you won’t show up only when it’s convenient,” she added.
“If you say you’re coming on a Saturday, you come.
If you can’t, you give notice.
My son will never wait by a window on his birthday again.”
Weston closed his eyes.
“I agree to that too.”
Chapter 19 — The Edits
Harlan took the draft and went through it with surgical precision, marking edits in red.
Blythe insisted every medical, psychological, and extracurricular expense be excluded from the base support calculation.
Harriet added a clause barring any future sale or refinancing of the children’s trust without a court order.
Weston objected to nothing.
Then Emmett, still by the doorway, looked at his father and asked, “Do you actually know how to play chess?”
Weston looked up, caught off guard.
“A little.”