ELIJAH’S POV:
She was completely composed. She looked like a woman who had chosen where she was standing and intended to stand there and nobody was going to have any thoughts about that.
After the statement there were two questions from journalists. I answered both of them steadily and briefly and then we thanked everyone and went back inside.
In the elevator up to my office I exhaled for what felt like the first time since six forty-three that morning.
“You did not have to do that,” I said.
“I know,” she said. “Stop saying that. I did it because I wanted to. Because you are my husband and because whoever put that story out there wanted you to feel alone and isolated and I am not interested in giving them that.
I looked at her.
“Also,” she added, “I want Voros to know that going after you was not the distraction he thought it would be. Coming after your family does not separate us. It just makes us harder to move.”
The elevator opened and we walked out.
And somewhere in the back of my mind, in the place where I kept the things that were going to take time to fully feel, I noted that this woman, who had every reason in the world to be careful about who she gave her full loyalty to, had given it to me. Without hesitation and without calculation. Just fully and without reservation.
I had done nothing to deserve her in the beginning and I had spent the past year trying very hard to be someone who did.

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