I had needed the Calloways’ good opinion for years.

Standing in that ballroom, I discovered I no longer did, and would never again, and that discovery was the true end of my marriage, more than any signature.

I wanted nothing from them.

And a woman who wants nothing from you is a woman you have fully lost your grip on.

And the officers put my husband in handcuffs and led him out of the ballroom.

Chapter 15 — The Reckoning