his eyes.
Vanessa started crying harder.
A week before the hearing, their home printer had malfunctioned.
Vanessa emailed the altered PDF to a copy center.
From her personal account.
The email read:
Daniel says use this new version because Mom’s doctor left out the mental part.
Maya obtained it after Vanessa forwarded the same email chain to Curtis Hale’s office.
Curtis looked as if he might be sick.
He had received the attachment.
But not the earlier messages in the chain until discovery.
Or perhaps his staff had missed them.
Either way, the message existed.
Judge Mercer called the clerk forward.
They spoke quietly.
Then he ordered another recess.
This time, two additional officers entered the courtroom.
Daniel noticed.
“So that’s it?” he said to me. “You’re going to have your own son arrested?”
I looked at him.
“You’re still thinking this is about what I’m doing to you.”
He
