After 6 months, Melissa was sentenced for distributing private recordings for profit.
On the day judgment was handed down, she turned around to look at Gavin again and again.
He never responded.
His company lost two funding rounds, and the board of directors ultimately accepted his resignation.
The man once praised in the media as one of the youngest executives in his industry ended up running only a small studio.
A mutual friend told me he sold our former home.
While moving, he found a note I had written and left in a storage cabinet.
It was from the third year of the startup, after he had stayed away from home for 2 consecutive days.
I had written:
If you're tired, you don't need to explain. I'll always be here.
Our friend said Gavin sat alone in the empty apartment all night,
