Within two hours, financial advisors and tax attorneys and estate planners had me in a conference room in Reston, talking about trusts and anonymity and wealth protection.

I nodded along as though I understood any of it.

My mind was on only one person: my wife, Adriana.

Chapter 3 — The Surprise

Adriana was one of those women who seemed built to walk into a room and change its air pressure.

Elegant, sharp, beautiful, with a way of speaking that made everyone else feel slightly less important whenever she wasn’t looking at them.