With the medical report, they pick him up fast.”

“Fast,” Brendan agreed.

“I’ll file the criminal complaint and request a protective order today, and I’ll file the divorce on grounds of cruelty and felony assault.

He is going to lose the case, the job, and the marriage in one motion.”

I picked up the pen and signed where he pointed, one clean line after another.

Then I told them the thing I had been holding.