Not because the pain was gone.

Because someone had just shown me that the pain and the paperwork were two different things, and that I could set the pain down for a while and pick up the paperwork, and that the paperwork was going to win.

Chapter 11 — The Freeze

By that afternoon, Solene had filed an emergency motion — a temporary restraining order to freeze the joint accounts, and an injunction stopping Damian from selling, moving, or borrowing against anything we shared.

When the notice hit his phone, he called me twelve times in five minutes.

When I finally answered, there was no apology in him.