And I protected, too, my son’s right to feel about his father whatever the truth, and not my anger, led him to feel.

Chapter 14 — The Fallout

The fallout was swift, and it was thorough, and almost none of it was my doing.

Because Luca had used official airline communications to stage a personal proposal, because that proposal involved an undisclosed relationship with an airline employee, because the resulting disruption had delayed a commercial flight full of paying passengers — the airline opened an immediate internal investigation.

When they requested any relevant evidence, I gave them the video.