I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT
she said, not unkindly, "that the board will try to catch you in something. A detail that doesn't match his version. A date that's off by a week. They will look for daylight between your account and his, because daylight is what wins these cases, not sincerity."
"There won't be daylight," I told her, "because neither of us is going to say anything that isn't true. That's the whole strategy, isn't it. We stop trying to build a story that sounds airtight and just tell the actual one." She held my gaze a beat longer than necessary, and something in her expression shifted, not quite warmth, but the particular respect of a professional recognizing a plan simple enough that it might actually survi