engineering mind returned before her body healed.
She placed a folder on my kitchen table with sections labeled in blue marker:
POLICE REPORT.
HOSPITAL RECORDS.
TIMELINE.
ATTORNEY.
I hated that she needed it.
I loved that she created it.
Marcus accepted a plea after the recordings, camera footage, medical files, and witness accounts left him almost no space to pretend innocence.
Sylvia blamed everyone but herself until the wedding ring in her handbag became the fact no story could erase.
The mistress claimed she had not known what happened before
