On my wedding night I hid under the bed to surprise my husband. His mother came in instead, sat down on the mattress above me, and put a call on speaker.

I was going to wait for her to leave and then get back under and do it properly when he came up. I had it worked out.

It is the smoke that stopped me. Not the words — the smoke, because it meant she was settling in, and because it meant he had lied about something small and pointless for no reason at all.

A man who lies about his mother’s cigarettes is a man who lies as a default setting.

I have thought about that more than about anything else in the recording.

PART 3

I kept every receipt.

That sentence was going to be his proof.

It turned out to be mine, and it took a solicitor in my father’s firm about nine days to explain to me exactly how.

Because the receipts that show Grayson paid for that apartment also show where the money came from.

It came out of his father’s estate.