My whole life, one way or another, I hadn’t been allowed to be myself, to speak my truth, to be as loud or as colorful as I wanted. I’d been told to be a good little girl who didn’t make too much noise and then a good little wife who didn’t make waves. I’d been told what to do and when to do it and then, despite everything I had sacrificed for him, Max had ripped my life to shreds, without a thought about how it would devastate me. For the first time ever, I was doing what I loved, what I wanted to be doing. I was in charge of my own life and my own fate, and I’d be damned if I was going to
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