And “every account is protected” is not a legal statement at all.

It is a noise.

It is a sound a person makes that is shaped like a fact.

What he said, in total, was three true details arranged around one false conclusion, delivered fast, by a man I had trusted for eighteen years, at a moment when I was incapable of evaluating anything.

I did not argue.

I did not shout.

I went upstairs and packed what I could carry in two trips because he was standing at the bottom of the stairs, and I have gone over that packing a thousand times.