“Luca’s attorney signed off on the final custody framework this morning.

Supervised visitation, once a month, at a court-designated family center, contingent on him keeping current with child support.

It’s done, Jessi.

All of it.

It’s finally done.”

I watched my daughter shriek with delight and lunge for a wooden toy, and I felt the last of the tension I had been carrying for two years quietly leave my body.

“He really believed,” I said, “that he could change a lock and take my whole life away from me.”

Evelyn reached over and took my hand, and looked at Lily with a love as fierce as my own.