right: money can provide an exit. Betrayal can make that exit necessary. Yet neither one turns the handle for you.
Aaron finally discovered what three years of underestimating me had cost him. I didn’t demand his company, trust, or fortune. I had no use for them. What he lost was the certainty that the wife he’d treated as permanent would always remain. And at 3:17 one morning, I made the choice he’d never believed was mine.
