Chapter 8 - THE NOTEBOOKThe spiral notebook contained thirty-seven dated bath entries over approximately four months.
Not every bath.
Many.
Columns.
Date.
Start time.
Water temperature.
“Resistance.”
“Reset.”
“Completion.”
“Dose.”
My hands shook when Detective Lopez showed my attorney a copy.
Not me directly at first.
Because the word dose sat beside numbers.
2.5.
No units on some pages.
On others:
mL.
That mattered.
Mark had been measuring liquid amounts.
Some entries:
2.5 mL — calm after 22 min
3 mL — excessive protest, asleep 8:40
0 — Erin home
That last category appeared repeatedly.
Zero when I was present.
Not because Sophie never needed allergy medicine when I was home.
Because whatever Mark was doing was tied to my absence.
There were also headings:
BRAVE BATH
quiet reset
no reward if exit
No sexual content.
No intimate photographs.
No hidden camera.
No obscene material.
May you like
A coercive behavior-management system.
Cold enough on paper to make my stomach turn.
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