Chapter 15 - Diane Asks to See Sophie
When Sophie was six months old, Diane requested contact.
Not through Ethan.
Through counsel.
She wanted a supervised visit.
My first answer was no.
Then I discussed it with Ethan, Rebecca, and our family therapist.
Eventually, we agreed to one tightly supervised meeting.
Diane entered without her cream suit.
Without Marcus.
Without a folder.
She looked at Sophie for a long time.
“She has Ethan’s eyes.”
I said nothing.
Diane turned to me.
“I thought you were going to destroy this family.”
I answered:
“I was trying to understand the accounts.”
“I know that now.”
“No. You knew it then.”
Diane looked down.
That was the difference she could no longer rewrite.
She had not attacked me because I was unstable.
She had needed me to appear unstable because I was asking stable,
specific, dangerous questions.
Diane apologized.
I did not forgive her that day.
Sophie did not owe her a relationship.
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Neither did I.
The meeting ended after twenty minutes.
