Sarah opened her laptop and pulled up a template for a restraining order petition. "I'll need you to provide a detailed timeline of Jackson's behavior: when you separated, what contact you've had since, the confrontation at the workshop, anything else that demonstrates a pattern of harassment or violence."

For the next hour, Aryyah walked Sarah through everything: leaving Jackson in early October, his initial attempts to convince her to come home, discovering he'd hired a private investigator, ...