MAVERICK

Why did it have to happen to me?

I cried in silence in my car. The silence it took, the more excruciating it got. It felt like someone just ripped my heart out of my chest. What did I do to deserve this pain— the kind of pain that I’d never felt before? It was too much— it was unbearable. And what worse could it be? I just stole five million dollars from my husband.

Lake was not just my husband—he was everything to me—my best friend, my anchor, my source ...