Going to the wedding had been for me — a refusal to be written out of my own story, to let Grayson keep telling two hundred people a lie about who I was.

That was mine to claim.

But the clips afterward, the offers, the national morning shows — that would have been spending my children to buy myself a bigger win, and there is a bright line between the two that I was not going to cross no matter how many yards of fabric it might have sold.

Elias and Tristan and Juniper had not chosen to be born into a viral scandal.

They were seven.