Emiliano had had thirty years to work on his fear before he stood at an altar and promised to protect her, and he had chosen, instead, to make her the shock absorber for a lifetime of it.

She could forgive the fear.

She could not un-know what he had done with it.

Chapter 32 — Gratitude

A month later, he signed.

The fraud investigation closed with Emiliano admitting, through his attorneys, that he had used her financial documents without consent.