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Pressure Points
Four weeks and three days until my sons arrive, and the October morning carries frost that makes my breath visible as I review the latest legal harassment. Mike spreads documents across our kitchen table while Kat lies in our bedroom, Dr. Rivera's bed rest orders keeping her horizontal like some fertility goddess trapped in mundane form. The blessing stirs beneath my skin, responding to the injunction papers with heat that threatens to char the edges.
"Your father filed twelve separate complaints," Mike says, adjusting his glasses with the particular exhaustion of someone who's been up all night fighting paper wars. "Health code violations, zoning disputes, claims that Howling Pines LLC is operating as an unlicensed securities exchange because of the profit-sharing
