After discovering my husband’s affair, his mistress’s husband approached me with an offer I never expected. “I have a fortune in the nine figures,” he said calmly. “Just say yes. Tomorrow morning, we’ll go to the city clerk and make it official.”

moment, perhaps waking in Lauren’s bed or stepping into a shower in some hotel suite, still believing I was the woman he had legally erased. I thought of the years I had spent cutting my own wants down to size so his ambitions could survive.

“No,” I said as I got into the car. “I’m done losing time.”

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