THE BILLIONAIRE’S EX-WIFE BECAME HIS GREATEST RIVAL
“Not as your wife. Not as someone waiting for you. Just as Elena.”
For perhaps the first time, he didn’t ask what he could do to stop the divorce. “I wish I’d understood this before you had to leave,” he said instead.
“So do I,” I said.
There was sadness between us, not anger. We both understood, I think, that timing mattered — that understanding something too late didn’t make the understanding meaningless, but it also couldn’t undo what the delay had already cost.
“Do you regret us?” he asked.
“No,” I said, and meant it. I remembered our wedding, our first year, the quiet moments and the laughter, the genuine life we had built. “I don’t regret loving you,” I said. “I regret losing myself wh