To Vance, through all of it, I maintained the fiction.

I was still the naive wife, still charmed, still asleep.

When he asked me how the share sale was coming, I told him my advisor was moving as fast as the market allowed.

I let him go on believing that the money was coming, because a man who believes the money is coming does not run, and does not hide his assets, and does not stop signing things.

I needed him to keep signing things.

Chapter 12 — The Debt Acknowledgment