And Gavin had personally approved her salary increases, her bonuses, her paid travel, her expense reports — and the luxury apartment he paid for appeared to run through a vendor under his own management.

His affair was not only a betrayal of me.

It was a conflict of interest, threaded through the company’s money, and the video had just handed the board a reason to pull the entire thread.

What he had done to me in private, he had also done to the company in its own accounts, and the company, unlike me, had auditors.

There is a grim symmetry in that which I have never stopped appreciating.