The Perfect Distraction

VALERIE

I had to hand it to Vivienne.

Watching her unravel after that phone call, the way her voice had climbed and cracked and gone almost hysterical in the background, anyone who did not know better would have thought she was genuinely, desperately in love with her husband. The kind of woman who had been wronged and was fighting to hold her marriage together.

It was impressive, really. Th