Today's OneWord: Shred

Lawrence held the paper in his hands and couldn't help creasing it in his rigid grip. This was not possible. Ten years after leaving the family to seek a life in New York, his brother George - or rather, his sister Georgia, as she preferred to be called - was suing him and his parents for emotional damage. He wanted to shred the letter with his bare fingers, rip it into pieces, but something - he couldn't ascertain as to what, exactly - stopped him from doing so.