You are the kind of accomplished woman his family can put on display at their galas.” She looked at me.

“But that is not the same thing as being the person he cannot let go of.”

It landed where she aimed it, in the softest place I had, and I did not let my face move.

“And you believe you are that person,” I said.

“The one he can’t let go of.”

“I don’t need to say it out loud.”