But her silence had already begun the work of saving her, before she even understood there was a war.

Chapter 3 — The Cold Coffee

She spent nearly two hours in an all-night diner, staring at a cup of coffee that went stone cold.

She cried.

And then she remembered something Dorian had spent five years trying to make her forget.

Before she had been “Dorian Vandenberg’s wife,” Linnea had been the Chief Financial Officer of Belmonte & Fairweather, the commercial real estate firm her grandfather had built.