She said yes.
And the rest of my life began.
I looked at Grandma.
“Our meeting wasn’t an accident?”
Grandma hesitated.
“Nora never told me she arranged it. She said she recognized you and finally found the courage to introduce herself.”
I pressed my hands against my face.
My wife had known my name before I ever learned hers.
She had protected my work.
She had built technology that helped save lives.
And she had kept an entire part of herself private.
I felt grief rising in my chest.
Not because I loved her any less.
Because I suddenly realized how much more there was to the woman I would never see again.
“Why didn’t you tell me after she died?”
Grandma lowered her head.
“Because Nora asked me to keep her business interests private until Lily was old enough to understand them.”
I stared at her.
“Business interests?”
