“He Left the Call Connected By Accident. She Listened as Her Husband Told Another Woman He Was Done With Her and Already Planning His Exit. She Stayed Silent for Six Days — Then She Made Her Own Plan.”

Part 2 — What Elon Said After the Door Closed

Elon called me forty minutes after I left the dinner.

I was at my parents’ house. Sophie was asleep in the portable crib my mother kept in the spare bedroom from the weeks after Sophie was born, when my mother had visited and held the baby while I slept for the first time in six days and she told me afterward that the dark circles under my eyes frightened her more than she wanted to admit.