I pressed the phone a little harder into the mattress and kept it running, and I let both of their voices lay themselves down, word by word, into the one place neither of them thought to look.

Chapter 5 — The Compliance Attorney

His second mistake was older, and deeper, and it was this: he had always believed I was a soft, sheltered heiress who had never had to be anything but taken care of.

He had forgotten — or never really registered — that before I stepped back to carry a high-risk pregnancy, I had spent four years as a corporate compliance attorney.

I had spent those years learning, in exhaustive detail, how wrongdoing is proven and how it is hidden.