now. Nobody is going to bring a lawsuit over a sixty-second walk across a high school basketball floor.”
“If I walk her tonight, his lawyer can invalidate the surrender contract,” Travis said.
He shifted his lower jaw from side to side, staring at the brass trim on the trophy case behind my head.
“He took fourteen thousand five hundred dollars of your seed money,” I said. “He signed the discharge paper.”
“He signed a paper that says I have no legal standing as her father until next month,” Travis said. “If I stand under those lights and claim to be her parent on a public broadcast, his attorney can claim I breached the non-disclosure terms and drag Kaylee into county court before winter.”
Howard stepped around the end of the folding table holding a black marker. He marked a thin black line through the space next to Kaylee’s name on
