Every report filed correctly.

Every move documented, sealed, and impossible to challenge.

He would not give Sarah, or Julian, or any future courtroom, a single thing to point at except the truth, presented so cleanly that it could not be denied.

And this was not weakness, and it was not coldness.

It was the sharpest possible form of protection, because it meant that when the reckoning came, it would be total, and airtight, and would leave his daughter completely safe, rather than tangled forever in a messy, contestable, he-said-she-said fight that a clever lawyer could reopen.

Marcus wanted Lily protected, permanently, beyond appeal.