A man who has been lucky and is telling you he was clever is the exact thing I spent two years investigating.”

Part Twenty-One: Chloe Bennett

I did not meet Chloe Bennett until eighteen months after all of it, and I want to do her properly, because the easy version of her is available and I used it for about a year and it is wrong.

She was thirty-one.

She was not a secretary and she was not a model and she was not somebody’s daughter.

She had a marketing degree from UConn and she worked for a mid-sized agency in Norwalk doing account coordination, and she met Julian in a professional context in the second year of the arrangement, which is to say about fourteen months before I stood on a porch.