Chapter 17 - TRISHA’S KNOWLEDGE
Trisha was not part of Dennis’s original guardianship fraud.
She did not know Sophie was Kara’s child.
She did know her husband had a secret daughter by another woman.
Dennis told her three years earlier.
Why stay?
Marriage.
Money.
Humiliation.
Fear of public embarrassment.
Dependence on my rent-free house.
Trisha demanded Sophie never enter their social life.
Dennis agreed.
Marlene kept the child.
Trisha benefited from not asking.
Then Marlene suffered the stroke.
Dennis brought Sophie to Portland.
Trisha saw her for the first time.
The resemblance to Kara frightened her.
She asked.
Dennis lied.
“She looks like her mother.”
“What mother?”
“Melissa.”
May you like
Trisha accepted for forty-eight hours.
Until police read the birth certificate.
