The Debt I Owed My Husband
"I thought winning meant making someone pay for what they'd taken from me. I didn't understand, until you, that winning could mean something else entirely — building something instead of destroying it. You didn't just survive my plan, Mia. You dismantled it, piece by piece, until there was nothing left of it except the version of my life I actually wanted. I don't have a contract for what I'm promising you now. I just have the truth, which is that I choose you. Not because of leverage, not because of strategy. Because you're the only calculation I ever got wrong, and the only one I'm grateful for."
Mia's vows were shorter, simpler, but no less true. "I came into this marriage as collateral,"