He pulled out a typed document and laid it on the table.

“I’ve been drafting a petition for a permanent restraining order,” Marcus said. “But now we have more.”

“What do you mean?” Leo asked.

“We have grounds for criminal charges,” Marcus said. “This isn’t just about custody anymore.”

He looked at the detectives.

“Are you going to arrest Melanie tonight?” Marcus asked.

“She’s currently in the holding room downstairs,” Miller said. “We are waiting on the assistant district attorney to sign off.”

“And Josephine?” I asked. “She’s the one who ordered this.”

“We need to connect her directly to the physical act,” Vance said. “The text she just sent helps, but we need more link.”

“The financial documents on the USB drive,” Marcus said. “Whose name is on the destination accounts?”

“Josephine Sullivan’s trust,” Vance replied.

Marcus smiled, a cold, humorless expression.

“That is the link,” Marcus said. “She was using the child’s health to extort the transfer of Grace’s inheritance.”

I looked down at my hands, which were still trembling.

I remembered the days of darkness in that back bedroom, the sound of the key turning in the lock from the outside.