Then I put it back in its envelope.

“He can’t even tell the truth now,” I told Dana.

She asked whether I wanted the letter preserved for the legal team.

I nodded.

By the end of that week, I learned Helen had been speaking to relatives.

According to my cousin, she told everyone she had frozen when she saw the accident and that Mark had been trying to help me.

People I hadn’t heard from in years began sending messages asking me not to destroy my marriage over a misunderstanding.