By noon that same Tuesday, Julian arrived at his office to find two security guards waiting at his desk.

His corporate laptop was seized on the spot.

His access badge was revoked.

And both he and Chloe were escorted from the building and summarily terminated, for severe ethics violations and the misuse of corporate funds.

It had taken, from the moment he slammed my door on Sunday night to the moment security walked him out of his office on Tuesday, roughly forty hours, for my husband to lose his marriage, his home, his job, and his reputation.

He had spent six months carefully, arrogantly dismantling my life, certain I would never notice, certain that even if I did, I could do nothing.