The school called. “Your daughter hasn’t been pick…

has terminated. I want him unable to make a decision about her, claim her, move her, speak for her, or build another lie around her ever again.”

Helen’s mouth curved very slightly.

“That,” she said, “I can do.”

She drafted two sets of papers.

The first was the weapon: a 50-page petition for sole custody and termination of parental rights, complete with continue reading …