She did not hate him for it.

But she would not pretend it had cost her nothing, either, and she thought he was old enough, and honest enough at last, to hear it.

Chapter 18 — Your Value Remains

The mansion in Naples stayed, legally, under Isadora’s control.

She never spent another night in it.

Instead, she gave it away by transforming it — into a residential center for women rebuilding their lives after the particular, invisible damage of emotional manipulation, financial control, and years of being made to feel like nothing.