Some part of me knew it didn’t sound like you.

But I was pregnant with twins, and utterly alone, and an entire law firm was promising to destroy me, and it was easier to believe the cruelest version and protect myself than to hope and be crushed again.

We both believed a lie, Christopher.

It was built, very carefully, by someone who knew us both, to look exactly like the truth.

That’s the thing I’ve had to make my peace with.

It was a good lie.