Chapter 20 - WESTON MOVES OUTI asked Weston to move out for three months.
He did.
Not ordered at first.
Agreed.
He rented a furnished apartment ten minutes away.
Cecily saw him under the temporary safety plan.
Daytime.
Then gradually ordinary parenting time returned after the evaluator found:
No evidence Weston had physically abused Cecily.
A meaningful bond.
Serious failure to protect.
Serious concealment.
Poor boundaries with Harlan.
But capacity to improve.
Weston entered individual therapy.
Parenting education.
Not because classes magically fix betrayal.
Because he needed language he had never learned.
He called me one night.
“I thought Dad taking toys was different from Dad hurting her.”
I said:
“It was different.”
He went quiet.
I continued:
“It was still hurting her.”
“Yes.”
“Don’t flatten everything into one category so you can apologize once.”
He cried.
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I did not comfort him.
That night was not my job.
