Richard’s lawyer closed her folder.
“My client will not answer that.”
Elaine’s voice came from the doorway.
“He already did.”
The nurse pushed her wheelchair inside.
Elaine held a phone in her lap.
“I asked Richard that question last week.”
She pressed play.
Richard’s recorded voice filled the room.
Lily is mine.
I never needed Daniel’s help.
I used his sample to make him believe he had something to lose.
As long as he believed the girl was his, he kept taking the money and kept quiet about me forging the forms.
Daniel’s face folded into his hands.
Richard stood.
“That recording is illegal.”
The judge struck the desk with her palm.
“Sit down, Mr.
Mercer.”
Richard obeyed.
Frank’s attorney daughter connected the account records to a screen.
The monthly “payments” to Daniel had been doubled in Richard’s records.
Half went to Daniel.
