My Husband Didn’t Realize I Was Still on the Line, and After Hearing the Truth, I Made Sure He Would Never Forget What Happened Next

kind of man she had been planning a future with.

I didn’t celebrate that.

In some ways, she had also believed a story Elon had chosen to tell.

I was simply relieved to be finished with all of it.

To Elon’s family’s credit, they did not abandon Sophie.

His mother called me a week after the anniversary dinner.

She cried.

She apologized.

She told me she was ashamed of what her son had done but hoped I would still allow her to remain Sophie’s grandmother.

“Of course,” I told her.