He never fought about the deed because from about 2022 onward he was not trying to get the house.

He was trying to get the house without me in it.

And a man doing that has no reason at all to argue.

Part Seven: What the Detective Told Me

My attorney is a woman named Priya Raghunathan who has done my firm’s contracts since 2016 and who is not a criminal lawyer and told me so inside ninety seconds.

What she did instead, which was the correct thing, was listen for eleven minutes, ask me twice whether I was physically safe at that moment, and then say: “I’m going to make a phone call and I am going to stay on the line with you while I do it.”