I understand the question, but it has never fit the thing it is asking about.

A victory implies a contest freely entered, two parties who agreed to compete.

I never agreed to compete with Damian.

For years I had only been trying to keep a marriage breathing, and then, when I understood what he was doing to the company, I had only been trying to keep eight hundred people from paying for his greed.

There was no game.

There was only a man stealing, and a wife who happened to have spent her whole life learning exactly how to see it, and a night when the two facts finally met in a room full of chandeliers.