The apartment sold, with my forty percent of the down payment returned off the top before the split, because I had the wire.

Fifty-eight thousand four hundred dollars charged against Mitchell’s share of the equity, as a dissipation of marital assets, which is a phrase I had never heard in February and could recite in my sleep by August.

All of Daisy’s therapy, indefinitely, and my medical costs, paid by the three of them jointly and severally, which is a phrase that means each of them is liable for the whole thing and they can argue among themselves about it.

And a written statement, signed by all four, in language Naomi drafted, stating as a matter of fact that Daisy Voss did not take the bracelet, that she was three years old, and that the adults in that household knew or should have known that she had not.

Naomi thought the statement was worthless and told me so twice.

“It has no legal effect.