He Laughed and Asked What Money I Thought I Was Leaving With Since I “Didn’t Even Have a Job” – He Never Knew the Dependent Wife He’d Built a Cage Around Was Sitting on Sixty-One Million Dollars

He wanted me to lie so that he would not have to stand in the fear he had made for himself.

I had stood in the fear he made for me for three years, alone, with no one to lie me out of it.

I was not going to spend the first free week of my life carrying him out of his.

Chapter 11 — You Can Have Him

Camila was suspended two days later, and Gavin shortly after.

And then, a week on, my phone rang from a number I didn’t know, and it was her.

“Nora.