What Flynn never understood — what men like Flynn are constitutionally unable to understand — is that a woman who chooses to be quiet is not the same as a woman who has nothing to say, and a woman who lets you handle the money is not the same as a woman who cannot.

I had run other people’s fortunes for a living before I ever ran his household.

I knew precisely what I had set down when I set down my career, and I knew it was mine to pick back up.

Flynn mistook my restraint for weakness because it flattered him to, and because the mistake cost him nothing — right up until the morning it cost him everything he owned.

And in five years of marriage, he had never once thought seriously about my grandfather.