Chapter 7 - Marcus Prepared Everything Six Weeks Earlier
The petition was not a reaction to anything I did during labor.
It was a plan.
Six weeks earlier, Marcus had drafted language claiming I was
deteriorating psychologically.
The document anticipated an “acute postpartum episode.”
It proposed temporary decision-making authority over Sophie.
Diane was named first.
Ethan was named second.
I looked at my husband.
“Did you know?”
“No.”
Rebecca checked.
Ethan had never signed it.
But another document carried his electronic signature.
A medical information authorization.
Ethan recognized it.
He had signed a stack of hospital insurance forms Diane brought to his
office.
He never read every page.
One authorization allowed Marcus’s firm to receive limited medical
information.
Ethan went pale.
“My mother put it in the stack.”
Rebecca replied:
“That appears possible. We need the originals and metadata before saying
exactly who inserted it.”
Again, evidence first.
Not rage.
That was how I used to work.
Now I had to do it while holding my newborn daughter.
Marcus had prepared the legal structure.
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Diane had prepared the story.
Someone else had been preparing my medical record.
