Chapter 244. Unfit
SEDONA
I read the motion at the kitchen table, alone, because Cameron had offered to summarize it for me and I had told him no. I needed the actual words. I needed to know exactly what they'd written, not the version filtered through someone protecting me from it.
‘’Delayed and inadequate medical attention. A pattern consistent with maternal neglect. Increasingly unstable behaviour.’’
I read it twice. The second time slower, the way you read something, you're trying to feel the full weight of it rather than simply process.
It didn't land where the stalking complaint had landed. It didn't land where the garden had landed, Logan's hand closing around my arm, the specific violence of that moment. Those had been attacks on my safety, and I had learned, slowly and at rea
