He Spent a Year Paying a Doctor to Write Down a Fragile, Unstable Version of Me That Didn’t Exist — So When He Finally Set Me Aside, the Whole World Would Believe I’d Simply Come Apart on My Own

“At least treat her decently,” Gabriel said.

“Get her real doctors.

Help her actually recover.”

“There’s no need,” Christian said, and I have never heard warmth and cruelty sit so close together in one voice.

“If she’s seen as fragile — if the story is that my poor Genevieve had a breakdown before the wedding — that’s better for me, not worse.

I’ll take care of her forever.

A private home.

Money.