“Back before her life had begun to unravel. Or before she knew it was unraveling.”

“Plus she had to admit that a small part of her secrecy was that she was holding something back, for herself. If she never told Dexter the truth, she was still reserving the right to return to her old life. To one day be a covert operative again. To be a person who could keep the largest secrets from everyone, including her husband, forever.”

“She spent so much of her new life wanting to get a break from the kids, then the rest of her time impatient to get back to them.”

“That was not her husband; she knew him, and that was not him. But of course she didn’t really know him.”

“But when Kate returned home he was gone. Back to the video camera that had recorded her. Back to his unexplainable office. Back to his secret phone, his unfamiliar contacts, his fifty million stolen euros. Back to his other life.”

“It would make a lot more sense if she had imagined this whole thing, her whole life. Now would just be now, attached to some other, more straightforward past.”

“Whatever her husband had done, it couldn't be as bad as what she herself had done.”