What that email revealed was not just theft; theft I could almost have understood, as a simple appetite for money.

What it revealed was that Damon had weaponized my own character against me — had studied the specific shape of my decency and used it as the blueprint for the robbery. Delia won’t check the accounts. Why wouldn’t I check?

Because I was trusting.

Because I was, even at the end, operating in good faith, ending my marriage honestly and assuming, foolishly, that he was doing the same.

Because I was the kind of person who did not go through someone’s things, who took a husband’s stewardship of the property at his word, who was too busy grieving to be suspicious.