They’d met in college, and for a long time, he had only loved two things in life: her and his work—the latter perhaps a bit more, which had driven a wedge between them. As the company grew, so did the distance between them. Noah admitted he had been blind to the signs of her unhappiness, and that not everything was as perfect as he’d believed after all.

“I used to blame Brianne for everything,” he acknowledged, his expression scrunching into one of fierce self-condemnation. I ...