as he laughed at her private remark. Somewhere along the way she’d become his constant companion, while I’d become the woman he occasionally identified as his wife.
I brought down two suitcases and filled them methodically: jackets, shirts, pants, shoes, toiletries he’d begun keeping in the guest bathroom, his backup executive badge, and the navy overcoat he loved. I left his expensive watches untouched. After years of arranging their servicing, I wasn’t going to let anyone accuse me of damaging or taking them. At 6:28, I closed the second
