“I didn’t buy a wife,” Bruce said.

“I stepped up for a family that was being destroyed. I’m not going to un-step.”

“You are going to lose everything you’ve built.”

“Then I’ll find out who’s actually with me,” he said, “and who was only ever with my money.”

I went back to my room with those words sitting on my chest like a stone. He was going to lose everything — his fortune, his life’s work, the shelters that depended on him — and it was because of us.

Because of me.