The frozen account had become my overdraft.
The disputed payments had become my late notices.
His phone call to my employer had become my termination email.
And now a photograph he had created in his own garage had become evidence that I could not keep my child clean.
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I opened my folder.
The grocery receipt was still there.
So was the termination email.
I had almost handed both to Maya that morning.
I had stopped because detergent did not prove who put dirt on Owen’s shirt, and losing my job still looked terrible no matter why it had happened.
This time, I slid the termination email toward her.
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