“And did you do so in order to compel her to apologize to you?”

Logan closed his eyes.

“Yes.”

And that was the moment his family’s version of events died for good.

Hearing him admit it plainly, in an official room, on the record, made it forever impossible for anyone to recast it as a marital misunderstanding, a bad day, a man losing his temper.

It was, in his own sworn word, a deliberate act of coercion, and no amount of Sunday-dinner storytelling could ever launder it back into something smaller.