My Husband Beat Me With a Belt Over His Mistress’s Lie and Made Me Sign Away Everything. I Signed in Silence — Then Made One Call That Put His $3.2 Billion Deal at Risk

I let that pass, the way I had learned to let a thousand things pass.

SwiftFreight, at that moment, was valued at almost nine billion dollars, and it was three days from receiving an enormous equity investment — three billion two hundred million dollars — from a fund called Crestview Partners.

Gavin had been talking about that deal for months, at dinners, at parties, in bed, as though the money were already his and the whole corporate world were simply waiting to acknowledge his genius.

It was the center of his universe.