My billionaire boyfriend’s mother walked into my Vermont farmhouse, placed a blank check on my kitchen table, and said, “Name your price. Then disappear before Adrian learns that child is his.”

the Vale family again.

“I didn’t write this.”

“I know,” Margaret said.

Adrian picked up the document.

He looked toward his mother.

“You had her signature forged?”

Celeste shook her head.

“I did nothing of the kind.”

Margaret produced an examination report.

“The signature appears to have been digitally reproduced from a document already stored in the company’s files.”

The attorney who’d arrived with Celeste suddenly interrupted.

“Mrs. Vale, you should stop speaking.”

She turned sharply toward him.

“You work for me.”

He removed his identification badge from his jacket