He Spent a Year Paying a Doctor to Write Down a Fragile, Unstable Version of Me That Didn’t Exist — So When He Finally Set Me Aside, the Whole World Would Believe I’d Simply Come Apart on My Own

I got it.

I have tried, ever since, to be the kind of person who does not need to be cornered — who asks the frightening question before the room goes dark.

Chapter 16 — What I Chose to Build

The trial took nearly two years.

Christian’s lawyers tried to call every piece of it a misunderstanding, but the transfers and the texts and the testimonies built a pattern no jury could unsee.

Dr.