Later, in California, in my own home, I would let myself grieve.

In that hotel room, I let myself work.

Knowing the difference, and knowing when to choose which, is perhaps the most useful thing my whole career ever taught me.

Chapter 5 — Who I Was Before

Because here is the thing that Julian and Evelyn had forgotten, or perhaps never fully understood, about the woman they had married into their family and then discarded on a beach.

I am a senior corporate auditor.