Here is what Julian and Tessa never understood about me, across seven years of marriage.

They thought I was a quiet corporate accountant.

Someone who was good with numbers in a dull, functionary sort of way, who handled the household finances and handed over the credit cards and could be relied upon to keep the books without asking difficult questions.

That was the version of me they had constructed, and it suited them, because a dull functionary is exactly the kind of person you can use as an unwitting participant in something without her ever noticing.

I was not a dull functionary.