International trips.

Investor dinners.

I had spent years telling myself I was building an empire for my daughters’ future, while abandoning them, utterly, in the present.

Chloe was a monster.

But she had not invented the space she was exploiting.

I had left it, empty, for her to fill.

This is the hardest thing I have had to reckon with, and I make myself say it plainly, because the temptation to let myself off the hook is enormous and I do not deserve it.

Chloe was responsible for what Chloe did.