Sandoval had refused, recognizing exactly how ugly the request was, and had resigned from the clinic the very next day.

He handed the grand jury the text messages in which Dario pressed him to “have the evaluation ready in case Marnie reacts badly to the new treatment.” It was the moment the defense’s story died.

If I was going to “react badly to a treatment,” someone had planned the treatment, and planned my madness to explain what it did.

This was the part that took me longest to sit with, because it was the part aimed most precisely at me.

Dario had not only planned to end my life.