In it were receipts for paid online trolls, transfers to rumor blogs, and a draft for a second smear campaign — a plan to accuse me of physically abusing my mother, using old photos of bruises from a fall she’d taken a year earlier.

He didn’t care about any of them.

He only wanted to frighten me into paying his debts.

Maya asked to record a short video from her hospital room.

Sitting beside Liam’s bassinet, she held up her medical chart, her patient wristband, and her admission records.

She didn’t insult Eleanor or Chloe.