Chapter 21

Dana Mercer laid the proposed financial settlement on the table and turned it toward me. "This is what Graham's side has now offered," she said. "Not a court finding. An agreed allocation of the disputed spending, if you're willing to accept the other terms." The records listed $18,400 transferred from our son's fund to Tessa. There were also two earlier housing payments for her previous apartment: a $1,250 deposit and $1,600 in rent, paid to the same property manager from an account we'd...