The messages.

Proof of all of it, three years of it.

You could have taken it to every outlet in the country and told them exactly what I was.

And you didn’t.”

For years this man had mistaken my love for weakness, my silence for obedience, my patience for an inability to leave.

So I told him the truth, without heat, because I no longer needed it to wound him.

“Those photographs that reached Bianca,” I said.