BURNED EMPIRE
I stared at him, a cold, uneasy feeling settling in my stomach, the sense that we'd stumbled onto something much larger and uglier than a simple custody dispute, something that had been quietly unfolding in the shadows of the Baldore family long before any of it touched us directly.
"We need to find out what that fertility specialist actually told her," I said. "Before Thursday. Whatever this is, George, I think it's bigger than either of us realized."
He nodded, already reaching for his phone again, and I sat back against the couch, exhausted and wired all at once, my mind racing through every possibility, every ugly secret this family had apparently been hiding just beneath the surface of