Emma sat in the diner reading through Sophia's documents for over an hour.
The evidence was comprehensive. Richard had paid Sophia's adoptive mother fifty thousand dollars in 1992 with a contract stating he would never attempt contact. He'd renewed the contract every five years with increasing payments.
By the time he died, he'd paid nearly half a million dollars to keep Sophia away from him.
"Why are you showing me this?" Emma asked finally.
"Because you need to understand what your father was," Sophia said. "And because I need you to help me."
"Help you how?" Emma asked.
"I'm filing a claim against his estate," Sophia said. "I'm arguing that the payments constitute an admission of paternity. That he owed me financial support that he deliberately avoided. That I'm entitled to a port
