Gratitude is for the grand gestures.

The small ones are how you fall.

Chapter 11 — The Farewell Note

But his generosity was costing him, and I could see it. He was losing contracts.

I watched deals evaporate, watched his name appear in the same ugly stories as mine.

One night, late, I heard him on the phone with his board of directors, and their voices were loud enough to carry.

“You need to walk away from this woman. Set her up in a house somewhere, quietly, and end this scandal before it takes the whole company down with it.”