Reading it hurt worse than the skin grafts.

But it also handed Rhoswen a gift: a sworn statement, signed by Lars, placing himself in the kitchen and admitting he knew the camera system existed.

He had put his own confession into the divorce file.

The audacity of it is still difficult to hold.

Think through what he actually did: he burned me, and then he photographed the burns, and then he submitted those photographs to a court as evidence that I was too damaged to be trusted with my own inheritance.

He took the injury he had inflicted and repackaged it as my incapacity.