They Arranged Themselves Like a Panel of Judges to Accuse Me of Trying to Destroy the Family — Then I Set My Phone on the Coffee Table, Pressed Play, and Let Them Hear the Man They’d Spent a Fortune Protecting

But it also told me something I could use.

Because a man who plans that carefully has, somewhere, a record.

A man who has done this before has left, somewhere, a trail.

Spontaneous cruelty leaves nothing behind.

Meticulous cruelty leaves a paper trail eight years deep in a private investigator’s file — and I had already found it, and it was, in that moment, sitting in a folder in my bag, waiting.

Chapter 4 — Sienna