on the twenty-fourth of next month.
If Travis violated that non-disclosure clause before her eighteenth birthday, the surrender contract became void, and full parental visitation rights would be restored to the biological father immediately.
The text notification on Travis’s phone screen made complete sense now. Attorney Vance was confirming that the signed surrender discharge document had been received and filed with the county court clerk.
I sat down on the wooden stool beside the stack of seed corn sacks.
Travis had taken fourteen thousand five hundred dollars out of our seed account three weeks ago to buy that man out of Kaylee’s life forever.
He had done it without telling me, without telling Kaylee, and without asking a local lawyer in Oelwein for advice.
And to keep the surrender agreement valid, he had convinced himself he could not step onto center court beside her tonight.
Heavy work boots crunched on
