"...And that's why I called you here, Claire," her voice dripped with poison at the mere mention of the name if her husband's mistress.
Sharon lead a wealthy life with her husband, Mark. Both had pedigrees which entrusted them with substantial sums of money; however, as the adage says: money can't buy happiness. For years they tried to start a family; to support a little baby financially to grow up and be whatever their little dreamed to be. Sharon was devastated to discover she could not bear children, doubled when she learned if her husband's impatient infidelity. She had the nation's best lawyer and the proof to run Mark into the dirt followed shortly by his tramp, but she hesitated on the follow through. Seeing Claire in the courtroom did not invoke righteous rage as it should have, but more a motherly attraction. She began imagining taking care of the woman as her own baby. A rightful punishment as well as a happily ever after in an otherwise villainous fairy tale. She immediately began drawing up an ultimatum which she now was presenting to the nervous woman sitting across from her in her elegant parlor.
"If you refuse my offer...," Sharon continued. "I will see to it the only place you will have to live is a cardboard box under an overpass, so what will it be?" She let the question linger while tilting her head curiously and smiling confidently. Claire could either smell like urine perpetually as a vagabond or just before her diaper was changed as a comfortable baby in a wealthy family. The choice was up to her, but really, Sharon crossed every 't' and dotted every "i" to make the decision night versus day.