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"She and our daughter are everything to me." My millionaire husband said it on live television, eleven minutes before I walked into our office suite and found him in bed with his chief of staff. Thirty-seven weeks pregnant. I'd come to surprise him after my prenatal appointment ended early. I had a silver rattle in my pocket, engraved with our daughter's name. He didn't apologize. He took my phone out of my hand. He called down to the lobby. "My wife is unwell," he said, in that same warm, caring voice he'd used on camera. "Make sure no one sees her leave." The car didn't take me home. It took me to Briarfield Behavioral Health Center. A locked gate. A plastic wristband. One word printed under my name: INPATIENT.