Everyone Asked What I Did to Bring Down My Husband’s Empire the Morning of His Wedding Rehearsal — It Was the Wrong Question; the Right One Was Ask What I Kept

Chapter 4 — Stripped Clean

Roman believed prison would break me.

What it actually did was strip me clean.

I learned things in there that I could never have learned in the comfortable life he took from me.

I learned patience from women serving sentences so long they had stopped counting, who taught me that time is not the enemy of the wronged but the weapon, if you know how to hold it.

I learned silence from guards who took bribes and expected you to pretend you hadn’t seen.