Chapter 20 - THE REPORTMaya decided to make a formal police report.
Her decision.
Not mine.
I drove.
Waited outside the interview room.
That mattered.
Detective Allison Price interviewed her.
Multiple sessions.
No pressure to remember every bruise.
Documents separately authenticated.
Medical records.
Audio.
Bank records.
Notary testimony.
My deployment records.
The missing firearm was found later in Victoria’s locked cabinet.
She claimed she removed it for “safety” after Maya became unstable.
No evidence Maya had threatened self-harm.
Victoria had no permission to possess it.
That created its own serious problem.
My grandmother’s earrings were found in a jewelry pouch at Victoria’s house.
She said she was keeping them safe.
Maya had never asked.
My watch?
May you like
Julian returned it through counsel.
No explanation.
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Chapter 21 - THE COUNTERSTORYVictoria and Julian hired separate attorneys.
Chapter 22 - MAYA AND I SEPARATENot divorce.
Chapter 23 - JULIAN’S PLEA AND VICTORIA’S TRIAL DECISIONThe legal cases separated.
Chapter 24 - THE PROPERTY CASEUndoing documents took longer than the criminal cases.
Chapter 25 - WHAT I OWED MAYAI once believed my debt to Maya was protection.
Chapter 26 - THE WATCHTwo years after I came home, I opened the safe.
