The Perfect Wife Walked Away
"Yes, I'll be your girlfriend. Yes, you can take care of us. Yes, Adam. Yes."
The smile that broke across his face was not the thin, self-deprecating smile of the past week. It was not the controlled, professional smile of the CEO or the polite, distant smile of the man at the reception in Zurich. It was a real smile — wide and unguarded and almost painful in its intensity. The smile of a man who had been holding his breath for a decade and had finally been allowed to exhale.