A permanent bar against holding executive authority over fiduciary funds.

The civil proceedings stripped away almost everything he’d tried to take.

Our divorce became final in September.

I got the house, but put it on the market three months later. I had no desire to stay in rooms where I’d spent years pretending not to see the distance widening between us.

My new home was more modest, full of broad windows and bare, fresh walls. No old memories waited in its closets.

Victor rented a condominium near Hartford. Olivia left Boston. The last I heard, she’d gone back to real estate and started using her maiden name again.