I could show them.
For months, Laura had always left herself an excuse.
I actually smiled.
Then I looked at the untouched pizza and the empty rooms down the hall, and my eyes burned.
I finally had proof.
I just hated what it had cost me to get it.
***
On Monday morning, I called my attorney.
I just hated what it had cost me to get it.
When I finished explaining what had happened, he asked me to send him the message exactly as Laura had written it.
Then he asked for everything else.
The repair records.
The signed form.
The earlier custody messages.
Then he asked for everything else.
***
A few weeks later, we were sitting in family court.
Laura tried to make it about the Mercedes.
“Craig is angry because we questioned the quality of his work,” she said. “He’s using the children to pressure me.”
For a moment, hearing her say it that way made my stomach tighten.
A few weeks later, we were sitting in family court.
It was the same thing she’d always done: take what she’d threatened me with and make me sound like the problem.
My attorney handed over the messages.
The room became very quiet.
Laura’s attorney leaned toward her and whispered something.
It was the same thing she’d always done
Then my attorney walked through the sequence.
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