“Yes,” I said. “Many threats.”

I told him everything. Wyatt, the sale of the company, the staged dinners, Melanie’s messages, the gifts Wyatt returned, the letters he burned, all the times my parents demanded I step aside.

Chief Briggs closed his notebook. “So the attack was meant to pressure him into leaving you for your sister.”

Wyatt’s jaw clenched. “They thought that if they destroyed her face, I’d stop loving her.”

The investigator didn’t answer right away. He looked too furious to speak.

Then a nurse put her head around the door. “There are three people asking to see her. Gregory Davis, Brenda Davis, and Melanie Davis.”