My body worked.

It had worked all along.

What had actually been broken in that marriage was never once in me.

Chapter 3 — The Assistant

The assistant came later — though of course she had been there all along, I only learned the shape of it later.

Her name was Sloane, and she was Damon’s executive assistant, and it began, as these things do, with messages that arrived too late at night to be about work.

Then the weekend business trips that did not quite need him.