Chapter 7

Evelyn began calling by noon.
I did not answer.
She sent texts instead.
You destroyed my family.
You humiliated Daniel.
You had no right to expose private medical information.
A good wife protects her husband.
You are cruel.
I stared at the last message.
Cruel.
From the woman who set baby clothes on a dinner table like evidence against my worth.
Alicia instructed me to preserve everything.
So I did.
Screenshots.
Voicemails.
Photos.
Reports.
Dates.
Years of messages asking if I was pregnant.
Years of “jokes.”
Years of Daniel saying, “She means well.”
May you like
She did not mean well.
She meant control.